Lines From Poems I Wrote In Elementary School
Some people think school is fun
I think they’ve just had too much sun
-from “School”
Cause they were hitting my head,
the back of my head.
-from “Fresh Cuts”
resident of modern life.
-from “Self Poem,” in which I was supposed to write “resident of [where I lived at the time]”
Sometimes… I like to pretend I’m still juvenile. I take my mattress into my living room and build a little den and watch tv, thinking I’m pretty cool because I have my own private house. I once even fell asleep in the living room in my fort-tent but there was no mom there to tell me to go to bed. I sometimes get chocolate milk to drink and get grossed out by boys. I giggle at inappropriate words and like to see how many pieces of popcorn I can get into my mouth in one go. Sometimes I decide that doing a jigsaw puzzle is more important than organising my online banking and i make random shadow puppets with my hands against the wall. These are good days.
Positive and Negative Kicking
Positive kicking: Kicking it up a notch.
Negative kicking: Kicking someone while he’s down.
Positive kicking: Your dog, Rex, kicking because you’re scratching it in just the right spot.
Negative kicking: Your dog, Rex, kicking you in the face while you were scratching him.
Positive kicking: Your heart’s still kicking!
Negative kicking: You’re kicking yourself for not eating healthier when you were younger so you didn’t have a heart attack in the first place.
Positive kicking: Your youngest is one of the MVPs of his soccer team and is trying out for a traveling league.
Negative kicking: Your eldest is getting kicked out of school for possession of a knife.
Positive kicking: Your therapist opens up a conversation with, “So, hey! What’s kicking?”
Negative kicking: Kicking your therapist’s coffee table after opening up about your delinquent brother.
Positive kicking: Getting a kick out of fantasy football.
Negative kicking: Gary from accounting kicking your ass at fantasy football, leading you to lose interest and focus more attention on your dog.
