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l 1 1mr 11 BACK TO SCtlOOL 11 1 11 i I ii I 11 I've rewatched every rerun I have no skin on my knees I've had it with the crickets the sunburn and the bees I 11 I I l 11 1 II I II II l i I hiked around the woods and got peed on by a tree toad My neighbor took me fishing I got gang-jumped by mosquitoes I've been bitten scorched and stung and the ball field is a sneeze My controller went on strike and I'm bouncing off the trees Days no longer long whisper Time to move along School is calling no use stalling Fall is falling and it cannot be ignored Should I follow Might as well HA'f O'J 0 ii M otJ 5Ul MI I AC J i tO I I t i I'm pretty bored I rJ J
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COUNT DOWN TO G T c lP made-up word Ill Beneath a hug of covers snugglebuggled in my bed I count down<cid_not_found_(cid:173)> ready set I'm gonna get up Instead I beg for two more minutes from my heartless ticking clock I'm about as energetic as a ten-ton moss-grown rock l Exactly how energetic can a ten-ton moss-grown rock be A Not very 12 As I pass my last drop deadline I snugglebuggle deeper Why must I be up for learning I'm a summa-cum-laude sleeper A word about made-up words In poetry we can break the rules sometimes using things like incomplete sentences and rarely made-up words It's okay Here s the trick make sure you create a word people can understand I never create nonsense words just to make a rhyme pattern work A fake rhyme is like a fake smile-no wonder if others will understand what you've written show it to someone and ask Do you get this And if they don't favorite made-up wordsmith course is Dr Seuss of make changes My one believes it If you 13
