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Teen Ink Magazine, November 2000 : Poetry Articles

A Turtle-Shaped Box
This selection can be found in Teen Ink Love andRelationships, the fourth in the Teen Ink book series, all available inbookstores nationwide and online ...
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Being Young Isn't Easy
Whenthe phone rings I pause,
Look at the clock and realize it's her.
Same timeeach day.
We talk about the same thing, every time.
We talk about how wecan't talk. ...
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Face
don't turnaway
it's not a joke
i'm not saying hi
because you're a familiarface
or a friend of a friend ...
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Fruit and Fudge
Eating chocolate strawberries
a little before midnight on a Thursday
while daydreaming about prom dresses.
Sinning against the code ofthe teenage girl diet
happily ...
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Horticulture With Grace
Gracie'shands -
shedding skin
like a snake in an oasis.
She picks tulips
ofmarmalade petals ...
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Morning
The sunshines on a great green dewy expanse
That I have no time for.
Walking, mybreath comes out in a white
Cold-warm paradoxical breath.
Birds chattermeaninglessly from the trees ...
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November
White gems divide asea of deepest blue.
My eyes linger upon heaven's best.
Night sounds add afew chords,
And a breeze provides movement.
The stars wink to a steadywaltz.
This is Winter's orchestra.
I lie quietly.
Flat on my back
Ingood dirt.





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Oil on Pine
I look upward and straight ahead from where I lie
likea midnight driver traveling an interstate

Fantastic cherubs soar atunknown heights above the thin mattress on which I sleep
...
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pIcKfOrD oR GiSh, iT dOeSn'T MaTtEr
I WiSh I hAd beEn a SiLeNT sCrEen StAr,
"oH,tAlKies WoN'T gO vErY fAr!"
I'D SaY, sHaKiNg my BoBbeD hAiR,
oN mY wAytO a FiTzGeRalD aFfaiR~>
wItHoUt a CaRe, wiThOuT a CarE
iN tHewOrld**********************






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teenaged cynics
they eyeeach other through narrowed lids,
button their tight black coats as a barrieragainst malignant stares
masked only by frosty purple eye shadow.
theirdark roots are just beginning to emerge, an upstaging of theircurrent
bleached-blond hue - ...
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The Perfect High School Love
(This canbe thick or thin.)

Take 1/4 cup of love,
2 cups disagreement,
3 cupsaffectionary sugar, ...
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Untitled
"Iknow you," I'll say

when you have
gathered up your cheeksand
shone off those picket-fence teeth to ...
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Vegetables
This selection can be found in Teen Ink: Written in theDirt, the sixth in the Teen Ink book series, comprised all of fiction andpoetry ...
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Who I Am
I want to meet myself on thestreet
Shake my hand and go for coffee
Get to know who I am
Everythingabout me
How was my day? What have I been doing? ...
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