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  Fore My Mummy

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  Right from the gecko I've gotten teased For my mother named me Say-Ahh And all my life I've struggled – I think she meant Isaiah. It's true, I guess, she says things funny It's become, well, suit-o-lore That when they ask for more Pacifics She takes them to the shore ...
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  Auschwitz

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  the cold cuts into me like the needle into their skin marking them forever so we can never forget my shadow is doubled, tripled, quadrupled as I walk out the way they couldn’t followed by ancestors I never met who faded away the way these buildings have faded from horror-houses to museums...
• Hot Topics > Letters to the Editor
  Sneek Peek

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  We, teens, are fantastic. I love reading the work we submit online and what gets published in the magazine. I especially enjoy seeing what themes are featured each month, but all too often I've started a poem about global warming only to find that ­Environmental Awareness is the theme of the issue,...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Majdanek

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  the crows have claimed this place wearing masks, hiding, crying still – here, the dirt is made of us...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Self-Medicated

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  When we were little we played a game called Doctor where she would dress up and I would play sick and she'd give me pills to make me better. We grew up, though, and grew apart. I don't play Doctor anymore, but she still does. Only now, she plays doctor and she plays patie...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  if if if

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  If I had my life to live over, I'd laugh more readily and more loudly, I'd smile more and fight less, I'd clean my room more often And not just when my mother told me to. If I had my life to live over, I’d give more presents and make more scavenger hunts and write more poems...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Boomerangs

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  circles and clocks day and night disappointment generations hunger inspirations love and peace seasons and time wheels and war...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  Purple Fingers

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  For a long time now, I’ve engaged in the practice of making up a new answer every time I get asked, “What’s your favorite food?” It shifts depending on my mood, the people I’m with, and maybe what I had for breakfast that day. “Chocolate-chip cookies.” “Calamari.” “Salmon.�...
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  The Locust Tree [an adaptation]

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  among the branches of the sweet tree green peeks through stiff swing would be old and broken but for bright memories broken legs from branch jumping come home, my love white dresses sweet kisses and May flowers again...
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  Finding Sadness

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  In a new mother's smile In an old mother's smile On a holiday spent alone On a yartzeit spent together In a bucket drawn from an empty well In a broken-down car by the side of the road In a slow-motion, black-and-white moving picture In an old and empty casino From a desert, a moun...
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  Unabridged

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  All these proletariats Expatiating in baroque phonemes: Every epithet an enigma, every locution too labyrinthine All these people Speaking in complex words And never saying anything...
• Hot Topics > Letters to the Editor
  Refrigerator

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  Every month, I eagerly await the arrival of Teen Ink. I read every issue from cover to cover – even the ads. I study the art and jot down phrases that pop out at me from the articles. I love the thrill that comes from reading original pieces by teenagers around the country and the world. Occasiona...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Breathing Spring

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  Far-away deadlines And school and college and grades Don't bother me When my feet are in the grass And my head in the clouds And my hands around a flower....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Mirror, Mirror

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  She stares into the mirror and asks - begs - for a non-truth, for the lie that she wants to hear. And the reflective glass indulges her, bends the light and shows her an image; full cheeks, bulging stomach, dandruff, awkward feet turned outward, split-end hair, cracked lips, chewed nails, big ...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Everybody's Always So F*cking Fine

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  Everybody's always so f*cking fine, When you ask how someone is they say "fine" It's a reflex, like blinking, not something that you can control It's a horrible intention, a shattered piece of soul And we are not always as fine as we seem Oftentimes we're broken an...
• Hot Topics > Health
  The Secret Dangers of Cell Phone Usage

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  Did you know? About 60,000 to 70,000 cell phones are sold every day in the United States. Over 1 billion people worldwide own or use cell phones. Every day, the majority of us use a cell phone. We love those things; they make our lives easier, faster, and more fun. However, cell phones are not risk-...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I Am A Daughter of Nature

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  I am a daughter of nature I say what I believe in I hear kids laughing I see a view that is heaven I want to fly off of it like a hawk I am a daughter of nature I pretend I can't see the skyscrapers I dream of a world filled with peace I try to reduce, reuse, recycle and rethink I ho...
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  Who Is He?

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA

  Who is he who walks among The mosses and doesn't tread? Who is he who takes what he needs Unneeded blood he doesn't shed? Who is he who silently tiptoes past the eagle? Who is he who sees the tree and says how it is regal? Who is he who knows not where to buy gold bars or rifles? Wh...
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  Reflection

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA
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  Fall Magic

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA
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  The Little White Church

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA
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  Oh Say Can You See?

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA
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  Pine Forest

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA
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  Glowing Pine

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA
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  Alley

  

  By bookwormishgirl, Merion, PA