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26 February 2020Calvin Olsenadvertising, birds, bus, eagle, flag, funny, haiku, holding, lawyer, poem, Poetry, poster, tongue-in-cheek Leave a comment

Tongue-in-cheek lawyer
Holds an eagle and a flag
On a bus poster

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26 February 2020Calvin Olsenadvertising, colors, empty, front, Glass, haiku, poem, Poetry, Raleigh, shop, sill, store, two, windows Leave a comment

Empty glass-front shop:
Two-colored advertisements
Every other sill

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29 January 2020Calvin Olsenadvertising, bus, drive, food, food drive, haiku, past, poem, Poetry, poster, thin, transportation, wrinkles Leave a comment

Thin wrinkled poster
On the bus advertises
A food drive now past

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1 October 2019Calvin Olsenadvertising, Apples, back, back to school, complete, display, fake, Granny Smith, haiku, how you like them apples, marketing, poem, Poetry, school, shine Leave a comment

Back-to-School display
Complete with fake Granny Smiths
That don’t quite shine right

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12 March 2019Calvin Olsenadvertising, cleave, face-down, haiku, paper, poem, Poetry, posters, pulp, telephone pole, thick, turning Leave a comment

So thick they’ve cleaved from
The telephone pole, posters
Turn to pulp face-down

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17 April 2016Calvin Olsenadvertising, blue, delivery, Dominos, Dominos pizza, dots, food, haiku, logo, magnets, marketing, pizza, poem, Poetry, red, three Leave a comment

Fwing of four magnets
Logo clinging to my roof
Blue and red, three dots

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12 October 2015Calvin Olsenadvertising, Boise State, Broncos, college, college football, Dark, exercise, football, green, haiku, hill, Light, poem, Poetry, sports, stadium, University of Virginia, UVA, walk, walking Leave a comment

Walk up a dark hill
Half-underground stadium
Lit green by an ad

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4 March 2015Calvin Olsenadvertisement, advertising, drink, dripping, haiku, icicles, Kool-Aid, new, poem, Poetry, pouring, red, Snow, Winter Leave a comment

Icicles dripping
Red Kool-Aid advertisement
Poured into new snow

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9 April 2014Calvin Olsenadvertising, air, airplanes, orange, planes, Rain, tree, Water Leave a comment

Two planes pull banners
Construction cone in a tree
The air is full of rain

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