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ALL-AMERICAN SESTINA
by Florence Cassen Mayers
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two-car garage
three strikes you're out
four-minute mile
five-cent cigar
six-string guitar
six-pack Bud
one-day sale
five-year warranty
two-way street
fourscore and seven years ago
three cheers
three-star restaurant
sixty-
four-dollar question
one-night stand
two-pound lobster
five-star general
five-course meal
three sheets to the wind
two bits
six-shooter
one-armed bandit
four-poster
four-wheel drive
five-and-dime
hole in one
three-alarm fire
sweet sixteen
two-wheeler
two-tone Chevy
four rms, hi flr, w/vu
six-footer
high five
three-ring circus
one-room schoolhouse
two thumbs up, five-karat diamond
Fourth of July, three-piece suit
six feet under, one-horse town
Copyright © 1996 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved.
The Atlantic Monthly; July 1996; All-American Sestina; Volume 278, No. 1; page 86.
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