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Why I Hate Summer

perspiciens's picture
Submitted by perspiciens on June 16, 2008 - 11:58.

We're having fun
Trying accents
Laughing at
Each other

Laying on my
Sleeping bag
Scared in by
The thunder
And lightening

We're trying
To write
Fiction novels
And we can't
Think of anything
So late at night

I say
Something funny
We laugh
Hysterically
It's something
You would've heard
If it wasn't
Summer now

We think
About how
We couldn't
Put the tent up
Because it was
Inside out

How we
Took it down
Faster than
Anything we've
Ever done before

We didn't want
To get struck
By lightening

I keep thinking
That I'll be able
To tell you guys
About how funny
It was

How stupid
We felt

And then
I realize
It's summer

You guys
Probably
Won't read your
Emails

Or reply back

This leaves me
With an empty feeling

Like my friends
Just died
And I have
No one left
To tell our
Funny stories to

Poet_Jessica's picture

ohhh i agree. summer is

Submitted by Poet_Jessica on June 16, 2008 - 12:11.

ohhh i agree. summer is annoying in that sense. especially when everyone else is going somewhere cool and you're stuck at home =[
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