Smallvilles : Real US Towns, Imagined Voices

Poems (un)inspired by the names of small towns gleaned from US census information. Any similarity between these poems and real towns is purely unbelievable.

Stories in this set

Arroz

Submitted on June 8, 2007 - 09:02 | 443 reads

Bromide Junction

Submitted on June 22, 2007 - 13:07 | 436 reads

Crow Creek

Submitted on July 9, 2007 - 13:36 | 368 reads

Davis

Submitted on May 23, 2007 - 17:59 | 464 reads

DESIRE

Submitted on May 22, 2007 - 12:08 | 618 reads

Ephraim Goodfellow

Submitted on October 5, 2008 - 13:38 | 118 reads

Ezra

Submitted on July 6, 2007 - 08:51 | 424 reads

Fudgearound

Submitted on July 10, 2007 - 09:25 | 395 reads

Good Samaritan Village (Edit)

Submitted on July 12, 2007 - 07:42 | 369 reads

Hazael

Submitted on May 27, 2007 - 12:34 | 432 reads

IXL

Submitted on July 13, 2007 - 08:37 | 494 reads

Jumpertown (Edit)

Submitted on June 1, 2007 - 10:54 | 431 reads

Kingdom Hall

Submitted on June 7, 2007 - 10:11 | 470 reads

Leisure Lee

Submitted on June 1, 2007 - 13:24 | 515 reads

Los Alamos

Submitted on September 24, 2007 - 11:51 | 347 reads

Mac

Submitted on July 14, 2007 - 12:19 | 468 reads

Nemo

Submitted on June 3, 2007 - 17:41 | 511 reads

O'Neals Crossroad

Submitted on June 2, 2007 - 12:09 | 602 reads

Ozone Park

Submitted on June 4, 2007 - 09:47 | 407 reads

Perdido

Submitted on June 12, 2007 - 18:46 | 548 reads

Quintette

Submitted on June 22, 2007 - 13:43 | 430 reads

Ready

Submitted on June 4, 2007 - 11:43 | 390 reads

Rescue

Submitted on May 30, 2007 - 11:50 | 541 reads

Simplicity

Submitted on July 15, 2007 - 12:49 | 501 reads

TB Crossroads

Submitted on July 17, 2007 - 19:14 | 404 reads

Unique

Submitted on June 18, 2007 - 12:22 | 417 reads

Vermillion

Submitted on August 31, 2007 - 14:08 | 393 reads

Wizard Wells

Submitted on May 31, 2007 - 10:25 | 544 reads

Xenophon

Submitted on September 1, 2007 - 08:39 | 296 reads

Yazoo Junction

Submitted on September 2, 2007 - 18:28 | 383 reads

Zebulon

Submitted on June 1, 2007 - 12:53 | 446 reads

Comments

Ewan | June 8, 2007 - 12:34

Yes, the names of the towns are real... the poems are not... Well, they're virtual, aren't they?

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