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Untitled MAG
I
Believe
Firmly
Intear-streaked
Happy endings
In the soul of Mother Earth
Andin her children.
And I believe
That good things happen
Tothose who sit in the sunshine
And sing their hearts out
Withoutacoustic guitars.
And I believe,
Yes,
I believe in WaltWhitman
Make fun if you will.
I believe in not caring
Whomakes fun
And in caring deeply.
I believe in caring
Foranyone who needs a helping hand
That is true chivalry,
Not whoholds the door
For whom.
I believe in grammar
And disjointedtrains
Of thought.
I believe
In AttentionDeficit
Disorder.
I believe in chaos
And myself
Andrebellion against rebellion
Why are you laughing?
I,
Ibelieve in math teachers
And science teachers
Historyteachers
Music and psychology teachers
Art teachers
Ibelieve in English teachers
The Great Gatsby
And HuckleberryFinn
I believe in Jim.
I believe
That it's okay to start apoem
With the words
"I believe"
You're laughingagain.
But hey,
You can't argue
With what I say Ibelieve
(My mother cuts down that argument
In ten secondsflat
In ninth-grade bible,
She tells me in triumph).
Ibelieve in my mother
Does that make me not
Seventeen?
Ibelieve in seventeen
And in Seventeen
And in not beingsnide:
Stop laughing
I didn't say I read it!
Ibelieve
In losing track
Of the original train of thought
AndI believe in writing
Poetry at midnight,
The weak lightfalling
On purple psychedelic
Mushroom pajama pants;
Ibelieve in my pants.
I believe in the sixties
And theseventies
And the fifties
And the nineties.
I believe inNorman Rockwell
Stan Rodgers
The Beatles
Peter, Paul andMary.
I believe
In my sister's friend Mary
A beautifullittle girl
With cerebral palsy:
I believe in a life
Inwhich Mary walks her walker
Through the halls
Of our highschool
Pulling straight A's
In honors math.
I believe inschool
And in desks
And in alphabetical order
Starting withQ.
I believe that wings
Are something every human beinghas
Just nobody knows how to use them.
But listen - Ibelieve
That the best thing you can do for
yourself
Isbelieve;
Now will you please stop laughing?
I'm making apoint!
.
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