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Cereal Ode

by Susan Landon

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Post Toasties

Tell me my memory is faulty,
that no crafty marketeer invented
a rhyming name to fool
innocent children into
sampling dried cat food.


Special K

What’s in a name?
Probably more than in the cereal.


Trix

Were these little red
balls designed to fool
a well-behaved child
into playing with her food?


Raisin Bran

We battled for the raisins,
the only cheer in the box.

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Susan Landon has won three Honorable Mentions in the Wilory Farm Poetry Contest and Honorable Mention in the Sunday Suitor Poetry Review Contest.  In 2001, one of her poems won the “Spare Change” Poetry Prize; this spring, she won a Cambridge Poetry Award for “Best Modern Poem”. We are intimidated by her long list, and so we stopped it here because quotation marks scare us.