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Robyn MacKinnon·November 3, 2019

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Espresso Yourself

written by: Robyn MacKinnon

@art_rat

to grind coffee beans

coffee on our BBQ

Espresso yourself

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Robyn MacKinnon

I am mostly a visual artist, but I like to create "found poetry", specifically daily haiku made from the statuses of my Facebook friends. It was my Mom who started this, and officially passed the responsibility onto me when she became too busy.

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