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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