After-Bath Powders
This selection can be found in Teen Ink Friendsand Family, the third in the Teen Ink book series, all available inbookstores nationwide and online. Continue...
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Dusk
Thus comes the night: the shadows slip
From clouds as black as ravens'wings
And silently they glide and skip,
Obscuring day's weakglistenings.
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Eulogy
Martina doesn't laugh.
It's for the imbecilic, she says,
who have nothingimportant to say.
But it wasn't always
that her lips were like those of afish being sold
frozen in a bed of ice
Martina is disgusted bytears.
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Fellow Thespian
When you say "life is a stage"
I don't think you realize that
youare the actor
wearing your theatrical mask,
and going through your plannedroutine
directed by someone other than
yourself
And when you find
you have forgotten your line
and ...
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My Piano
As I listen to the sounds
I can feel what they mean
I have the power
Tohave a conversation with myself
By softly tapping on a mix
Of black andwhite keys
It can act as an inspiration
To make me exhilarated, somber,ecstatic ...
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one man circus
that thing i never told you
has been eating away at my head
thethings i could never show you
made me go insane
but i thought i could fendit off
all by myself
just this once
and this time i was wrong
itwasn't the eraseable sadness
like so many times before
just ...
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Petals
A little girl buried golden in the saffron of a cornfield
Complacent grinturned facing the sun
Daisies tossed among the loose sunflower strands
Thatcover her tiny dimples until
She pulls them back again
They spill over herjade-green eyes
And for a moment she can't see the ...
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Revolutionary Worms
It is the mango *
tangerine *
grape * guava * nectarine * dream ofnaivete *
masquerading the Ginseng *
like banana strawberry *
From aunautural *
party hardy *
We pump pop *
pump pop *
pump pop *
asthe tempo drops *
nonstop *
Orange Raspberry Cherry ...
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Ripe for the Asking
I was standing on the corner of Indecision and Abnormal yesterday,
waitingtentatively for the light to change,
when a stranger came up to me andasked,
in the most polite voice,
"Please, may I put your heart in ablender?"
How could I refuse?
After all, he was ...
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Shadows of Voice
Many a new dawn will appear over the valley
Where darkness once fell withgrandiose brutality
The aftermath of pain and spirits will linger
Over theenchanting voice of a fabled singer.
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Swings and Fun
As kids we all played on swings
The smooth black seat made of rubber
withbird droppings on the other side
was the best place to sit
We playeddifferent games
the spider, the cradle
Jumping off the swings was acontest
against the playground rules
The screeching chains ...
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The American Dream
It is the American Dream
What we all strive for and imagine
Indouble-wide trailers to double-wide mansions
In sprouting lakes of fake fish.
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The History of An Empty Lot
Heat dripping sweat in eyes ... flames, flickering ... fear clutching atyour bowels ... fire! ... pain, searing, burning ... children clutching theirmommies in fear ... fire! ... seeking protection ... flames lapping at the skylike hungry tongues ...
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Turn
Paddle against the current -
Feel movement in the stillness;
The light yousee in the dark -
The ending is the same
As the beginning.
Wait forit to pass -
Your need for change;
You turn your head 1,000 miles
Toface your mind's new world.
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