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All I Need Is a Friend MAG

January 28, 2009
By Ryan Moran BRONZE, Mt. Prospect, Illinois
Ryan Moran BRONZE, Mt. Prospect, Illinois
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Books fill up my room.
Not baseball cards,
or pictures of girls,
or basketballs.
Maybe a blown up picture of …
… Pam Anderson might help.

Black-framed glasses
and a white,
pale,
lanky
body.
I should start working out.

At least I can read.
I read four books a day last summer.
The librarian,
80-year-old Mrs. Woodsworth,
she knows my middle name.
If only I had a real friend.
I am sick of seeing her old,
bony,
pale body.
Although it resembles mine.

The kids at school laugh.
Is it the way I dress?
Lacoste,
Ralph Lauren,
La Tigre.
I’ve tried every designer out there.
Staying in the house really saves me money.
My stupid rich parents give me $50 a week for lunch.
$50 times 36 weeks …
what is that?
$1,000,
$2,000,
$10,000?
I should probably know.
Straight A’s 12 years in a row
and counting.

With all of this,
or none of this –
it depends how you look at it –
all I need is a friend.



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on Aug. 14 2010 at 11:35 pm
Ramonda S BRONZE, Kansas City, Missouri
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Favorite Quote:
Tough times don&#039;t last, <br /> Tough people do.

you do have a friend :

 

GOD IS YOU FRIEND :)


Priya21 BRONZE said...
on Aug. 14 2010 at 10:30 pm
Priya21 BRONZE, Marietta, Georgia
3 articles 0 photos 21 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Be who YOU want to be, not what people tell you to be.&quot; -Me

I agree..completely relatable!

on Aug. 14 2010 at 12:39 pm
LoveTravelTell GOLD, Leftoverthere, Florida
15 articles 0 photos 16 comments

Favorite Quote:
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in my, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24.

:) i'd like to meet someone like that. they seem like they'd be quite interesting, and fun to converse with.

HazelKush GOLD said...
on Aug. 12 2010 at 8:29 pm
HazelKush GOLD, Odenton, Maryland
12 articles 10 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.&quot; - Yoda.

Amazing style, completely relatable, really really awesome poem. Props, man, props.

on Aug. 12 2010 at 6:53 pm
can competely relate. it seems the bigger the house, the emptier it becomes. luv dddys wobm btw totaly relate

on Aug. 12 2010 at 5:09 pm
collegegirladventures GOLD, Mequon, Wisconsin
10 articles 8 photos 307 comments

Favorite Quote:
A poet&#039;s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.<br /> <br /> ~Salman Rushdie

AH! i didnt know that this writer also wrote Daddy's Womb. I luuuuv that poem.

futurewriter said...
on Aug. 12 2010 at 4:11 pm
Well we all have our own opinions.

on Aug. 12 2010 at 11:38 am
starlight26 GOLD, Miramar, Florida
11 articles 7 photos 174 comments

Favorite Quote:
*life isnt about pretending to be something you&#039;re not. It about being who you are and finding someone <br /> who loves every bit of it.&quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;Life&#039;s tradegy is that we get old too soon and wise too late&quot;

Wow.GREAT poem. I didnt realize that you were the author of this poem, or daddy's womb/time I LOVE ur work. I have read daddy's womb several times and commented! Its one of my favorites. Keep Writing!

_Mags_ SILVER said...
on Aug. 12 2010 at 10:50 am
_Mags_ SILVER, Somewhere, North Carolina
9 articles 7 photos 436 comments

Favorite Quote:
- I stare danger in the face and giggle<br /> - Never argue with an idiot, people might not know the difference<br /> -R.A.P (Retards Attempting Poetry)<br /> -Tip Cologne ryhmes with alone

i love this poem, and i knew a guy like you. Me and another girl tried to be his friend but then he just made fun of us

Kira77 BRONZE said...
on Aug. 12 2010 at 10:04 am
Kira77 BRONZE, York, Pennsylvania
2 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;When it is dark enough, you can see the stars&quot;.<br /> ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I really liked the honesty of this, and how I could hear your voice. As I was reading it, I could almost hear you in my head.

ksung said...
on Aug. 12 2010 at 12:41 am
ksung, Bellevue, Washington
0 articles 39 photos 19 comments
actually the pale body description only helps to emphasize his emotions and feelings. 

futurewriter said...
on Aug. 12 2010 at 12:19 am
Okay dude, your phrasing is incoherent, and that stuff about pale bodies was disturbing. Some things are better left unsaid.

on Aug. 11 2010 at 8:49 pm
weebnini DIAMOND, San Diego, California
55 articles 3 photos 164 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Done &amp; Over&quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;Anyone can give up, it&#039;s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that&#039;s true strength.&quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;People should be able to say how they feel. How they really feel. Not, you know, some words that some strangers put in their mouth.&quot;

agreed :) haha, we're there for you 

KelsieYellow said...
on Aug. 11 2010 at 2:57 am
I will be your friend.

Photo_97 said...
on Aug. 10 2010 at 1:28 pm
Photo_97, Ct., Connecticut
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im with justbreathe all the way

:)


on Aug. 9 2010 at 8:29 pm
songofheaven BRONZE, East Amherst, New York
2 articles 2 photos 51 comments

Favorite Quote:
I have found power in the mysteries of thought. -Euripides

Maybe you're right; maybe you're not. It was the only thing I could do for myself.

on Aug. 9 2010 at 6:59 pm
JustBreathe BRONZE, Peachland, Other
3 articles 0 photos 12 comments
I wish there were more guys like you around.  I'd be your friend :)

on Aug. 9 2010 at 5:37 pm
deardiary BRONZE, Saskatoon, Other
3 articles 0 photos 65 comments

Favorite Quote:
It is a truth universally acknowedged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. -Pride and Prejudice

u cant train urself not to need friends. everyone needs someone

kamarin said...
on Aug. 7 2010 at 10:25 pm
kamarin, Dayton, Ohio
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loved it

amazing


on Aug. 5 2010 at 2:27 am
OstentatiousNature BRONZE, Laingsburg, Michigan
4 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us that than people or things we&#039;re quoting&quot; -John Green

beautiful and tragic simultaniously. great work