Signs on a Walk Across Town (poem)

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[Stuck in the hellstrip on Fifth Street] The Manors At Elmhaven: Starting in the Low 400s!

[Pinned to a white picket fence] God bless America… AND GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP!

[Freestanding sign, absurdly big] Trudy Busch Valentine for Senate

[A tiny fluttering banner in a garden] Women's Rights Are Human Rights

[In windows and yards] PROUD UNION HOME

[Tacked to a telephone pole] Yard Sale, Sat. 10-whenever

[Flying from friends' neighbor's flagpole] FUCK JOE BIDEN! And if you voted for him… FUCK YOU TOO!

[Growing like flowers in lawns] We believe (platitudes)

[Cartoon letters arranged by a professional company] HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY, SAM!

[Tucked here and there, usually behind windows] Black Lives Matter

[Placed in a front lawn] Jim's Roofing Business: Call Today!

Rainbow flags

Thin blue line flags

[On one side of a flag] Don't Tread On Me 

[On the other side of the same flag] Back the Blue

[On the marquis of a tiny church] IF YOU THINK THIS IS BAD, WAIT UNTIL YOU'RE LEFT BEHIND AT THE RAPTURE

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