Recipe for Clouds at 7:27 This Morning

Take cotton balls.
Put them in a cup of dark pink or pink-orange dye.
Let them sit for five minutes there.
Take them out and let them dry.
Wash the cotton balls hard in water
To try to get the dye off.
Let them dry again.
Pull out the edges.
Fix them in the sky.
Call them clouds.

-A. Schardl
1999

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