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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/1031052-Grade-Four
Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #2248076
A poem a day each April, for Katya the Poet's Dew Drop Inn
#1031052 added April 21, 2022 at 7:32am
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Grade Four
I wrote all kinds of stories on its onion skin pages
so it went worn & floppy quickly, this prize I'd won
that time my final book report got the highest grade.

The entire class was less than envious (after all
it was a dopey dictionary - not candy, extra recess,
or something really worthy of all the writing work)

but for me it was the means to place my everything
told thru code & marked with feathers, folded notes,
and Fruit Stripe wrappers still suffused with scent;

I filed moods in alphabetical order, so S for scared
when the arguments crescendoed into screaming
& Q for question: Will my father move, at last, away?

I should have studied it, learned every word within
but instead I colored, journaled, quizzed & scribbled -
pronunciations of protests I could never quite define.



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