I Tried to Post

a picture on Facebook

of the pumpkin latte

I bought with money

Juliet sent me

but now it’s my profile picture

Then I tried to write

a post

but it ended up a story

so I give up

drink my pumpkin latte

enjoy a day in October

in the 70’s

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Paula Yup, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, has lived in the US, Japan, Canada and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. She currently resides in Spokane, Washington. She has poems published in Exit 13, Trajectory, Evening Street Review, J Journal  and other magazines. Paula’s husband Dean Jacobson taught Marine Biology in the Republic of the Marshall Islands for a dozen years before returning to Spokane, Washington. Dean passed away in 2018 after an illness.