Posts
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Vanilla Ice Cream
Everyone likes
Vanilla ice cream
But chocolate
Is better
So they take chocolate
And the vanilla ice cream
Just sits there
And melts
Until it's just a puddle
Everyone likes
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Welcome To My World
As a little kid
People used to tell me
How they would love
T0 get in my head
And see where my
Questions
Ideas
Thoughts
Answers
Come from
I bet they thought it would be
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Liberty and Justice
“Liberty and Justice for All”
Liberty and justice
For people who are men
For people who are white
For people who are heterosexual
For people who are rich
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Old Grey T Shirt
A girl
In the elementary school
Had to walk around
In an old grey T shirt
Way to big for her
Because
A sliver of skin
Not much thicker than my thumb
Was showing
And the teachers
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Words To The Oldest Sister
Hold it together
Be a good kid
Set an example
Make safe decisions
Don't be obnoxious
Or greedy
Or spoiled
Or sassy
Or fresh
Lead your siblings
Your not their mom
But help them
Loves
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Tired.
I’m tired.
Not “need-a-nap” tired.
Not “school-was-long” tired.
I’m tired in a way that reaches all the way down to my ribs.
I don’t sleep much anymore.
I stay up listening.
Not for music.
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Fire
Wisps of smoke flick through the sky
a quickly fading whisper of what was
of what used to be
but not anymore.
Faintly glowing embers
tokens of the past
they fade away too soon
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Quiet Expectations
They won’t teach me how to be a woman—
But they’ll notice when I’m not.
Say I should smile more, try harder,
Be brighter, quieter,
Less me, more what they forgot. -
what’s next
she walks into the room like a sentence that forgot to whisper
light brown hair pulled back in a way that says she didn’t try
but still somehow gets it right
clear glasses catching the light
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my next trick
it won't be flashy, showy, or
even remotely special to the untrained eye
but those who've suffered the burden of
knowing me will understand why
my next trick is magical.
from the seventh grader who
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dear madame president
i hope that you rest easy as the world
tumbles down into fire
for you did everything you could
& we didn't do enough. it was never
your fate to carry the failures of
common sense & education, but now