Teen Talk

September/October 2007

Poem

by Tanya Troxell

 

Her body is alive, but she is dead.

She could get straight A’s, but she gets C’s instead.

Her stomach is empty, but her head says it is full.

Her stomach screams, “Feed me” but she can’t eat at school.

Her legs work perfectly, but she acts like she is paralyzed.

You can see pain and sorrowness in her eyes.

She’s like a dog in a kennel, but she is supposed to be free as a bird.

One person controls her every move, one person controls her every word.

A school bully controlling her every move,

With methods that I really don’t have to say.

A school bully, the only person that can make your day a bad day.



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Latin III
by Sergio Navarro

Some guys you just don’t like
But he’s absurd
Giving tons of papers for us to find
And enough to burn
A nice fireplace to keep warm at home

We jump around a lot and
Expect to know things
So tests come around ‘X’ jammed
Across the thing, skew of mines

I guess I can’t blame him for
Me not remembering things from year 2
Vocab, endings, forms and declension

But I do blame him for not mentioning
Not going over things that I need to know
I guess I got to make a friend who I could
Bug on the phone


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