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roxane
Senior Member

since 1999-09-02

Posts 505
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0 posted 1999-09-06 11:58 PM

Oh I don't care what they say
I'm as deep as the next girl you see
And if they choose to judge and rage
Then they must be filled with envy
Oh I don't see what they mean
By saying I am far too cruel
Those kids they deserve these insults
After all this is just high school
Oh I don't know what to wear
And though I know it all looks great
I call myself fat. Annorexia's passe
I go and throw up what I just ate
Oh I'm not scared of school shootings
Besides I'm as pious as can be
And if they point a gun in my face
How dare they kill something so pretty
Oh and I suppose that it could happen
And stranger things could happen still
But I have a thought (imagine that)
What inspires such losers to want to kill
Oh and I've said some trifling things
Shoved an ugly girl or two
But this hideous face I don't remember
Please tell me what I did to you
Oh and I see that I'm going to die
You think I deserve this violent end
But I so want to leave a pretty corpse
So shoot me someplace it won't offend

I hope that this doesn't upset anyone or make them think that I want to kill anyone. Far from it. This is just my take on a lot of school violence and the other side of it. I think that a lot of the kids who do stuff like that had to put up with a lot of stuff from their classmates. I IN NO WAY CONDONE THEIR ACTIONS. But I wanted to write something to repersent that.

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"Come night, come darkness, for you cannot come too soon or stay too long in such a place as this." Charles Dickens

roxane

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

1 posted 1999-09-07 08:37 AM

This is a very strong subjected poem...amazing what concerns our youth of today, they don't fear death, only sometimes life

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"Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald

Wolfgang
Member

since 1999-05-24

Posts 124
Hamilton, Ont. Canada

2 posted 1999-09-08 10:13 PM

The content of the poem is important but just as important is the way it's being said.
And you have said it very well indeed.

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