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# The Pavloviad
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-pavloviad/
- Published: 2021-07-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Drowning under a mountain of clichés she wished that she had cultivated an art contest -- or would it be as bad?
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Drowning under a mountain of clichés  
she wished that she had cultivated  
an art contest -- or would it be as bad?

"Ugh, it's going to be a long summer", she thought  
as the contest entries piled up. "Can't cancel it now,  
it'll be a shit-storm."

Then brought up Candy Crush on her phone

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**Author notes:** Thought it might be fun to work all the prompt words into the story: dependence, summer, cultivation, mountain, storm If you're wondering about the title, here's Pavlov, and I thought of him because of "dependence" in the prompt above: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ivan-Pavlov https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783920-Wednesday-Word-for-July-2021