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What the little people say

November 8, 2010
By Anonymous

Ringring! Ringring!
goes the phone.
“Hello,”
she says.
“Yes, this is her,”
she responds to the murmur.
Her expression turns
to a face of disappointment.
“Ok. Bye,”
she hangs up.
She goes to their room.
He starts to shout.
BANGS on the walls.
I crawl to the corner
and hold my legs tightly.

The next day I ask if I can buy paper
for extra credit.
He nods his head no.
“I want you to give up studying.
I want you to help your mother and
start looking for a job to pay these bills,”
he retorts.
I storm to my room and cry.
“Why not you?
Why don’t you go to Wal-Mart
and get a job there?
Haven’t you tried McDonalds,
you old ***?!”
I shout in my head.

It’s not fair.
Did I choose to live?
Did I want to move to a bigger house?
Did I want the expensive heater?
I had no word for that like I have no word for this…
It sucks to have no power.


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. said...
on Nov. 23 2010 at 8:48 pm
A good narrative and I like the dialogue especially. However I think in the last stanza where you say "i have no word for this" i think it would make better sense if you said "i have no say in this, just like i have no say in..." That part was a little confusing and I had to read it overa few times. Good job :)