Flower Petal Finger Nails
Image and poem used in Volume #3 of the Magazine March 2007
Flower Petal Finger Nails
My Mama said when she was five
She used flower petals
To make her finger nails.
She stuck them carefully with gum
After the flavor was gone
I wonder what she was thinking.
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