The east side of town
breathes lard-hung air; rendering
plant runs all night long.
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Karin S. Wiberg 
I really like breathes lard-hung air, don’t know why i do but it’s an intresting line. Nice take on the prompt
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Thanks, Bruce. I was a little worried I would gross people out(!), but it is a memory of where I grew up (well I didn’t live there–just passed through).
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Wow–pretty cool!
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Well, I’m not sure “cool” is how I would describe it! Kind of smelly! 🙂
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Quite a surprising take on the prompt. I like it very much. I tend to write too serious pieces and I’m always happy to see such cool haiku 🙂
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Thanks, Mariya. I appreciate the comment!
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Hey that is really neat. There is a rendering plant in my city not far from where I live. So mornings it smelled of bacon. And some mornings it reeked of death. The plant is closing now that the city has grown around it….
Very well written and inspired haiku!
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Ah, then you understand exactly what I meant! Thanks for the comment!
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another poster said they had trouble getting past the idea of ‘fats’…..your just went with it and it worked beautifully
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I started listing out all the different uses of the word render, but this one jumped out. When that happens, I just have to go with it!
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Good take on the prompt. That was my first thought aobut render, but decided to go with my second.
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And yours was way funnier than mine! 🙂
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Nothing pretty about this picture—but I certainly see the rendering plant. 🙂
Three Renderings
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You are right–definitely not pretty.
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Beautiful take on the prompt..
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Thank you!
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Terrific! Ugh! There used to be one at the bottom on Georgetown in Washington, D.C. OMG – one had to close one’s nostrils anywhere nearby. Wonderful description, and somehow the use of “runs” with the rendering felt very clever to me – the juxtaposition with the lard-hung air so stagnant and heavy and the running factory rendering. k.
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Thanks, K. I can tell you totally get the picture! Ew.
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Hahahaha, sounds pretty nasty, lol!! Great write! I am picturing Homer Simpson saying,”mmmmmmm, Lard!”
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LOL. As my husband likes to say to annoy his non-red-meat-eating wife, “Everything’s better with lard!!”
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I hate that smell. I had to work really hard not to use this meaning of render due to my farm background.
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I know. It is the kind of smell that can just make you gag. Ick.
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