\"Writing.Com
*Magnify*
SPONSORED LINKS
Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1705333-Pencil-IN
Item Icon
Rated: E · Other · Other · #1705333
A penciled life
How would you like to be a pencil?
I'm not at all permanent
I can be erased and the
worst is that most pencils look alike.

Fourteen billion pencils are made each year.
enough to circle the globe sixty-two times.

Luckily, I belong to a poet who only
writes first drafts so,
it puts lead in my pencil and makes me feel
special to hear the words out loud.

Here is one he wrote about me:
"Don't think you're so great because
you're a number one." Too bad more people
don't take that to heart. That's the tip
that is the sharpest point I can make.



© Copyright 2010 loveofearth (loveofearth at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Writing.Com, its affiliates and syndicates have been granted non-exclusive rights to display this work.
Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1705333-Pencil-IN