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All I Need Is a Friend MAG

January 28, 2009
By Ryan Moran BRONZE, Mt. Prospect, Illinois
Ryan Moran BRONZE, Mt. Prospect, Illinois
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Books fill up my room.
Not baseball cards,
or pictures of girls,
or basketballs.
Maybe a blown up picture of …
… Pam Anderson might help.

Black-framed glasses
and a white,
pale,
lanky
body.
I should start working out.

At least I can read.
I read four books a day last summer.
The librarian,
80-year-old Mrs. Woodsworth,
she knows my middle name.
If only I had a real friend.
I am sick of seeing her old,
bony,
pale body.
Although it resembles mine.

The kids at school laugh.
Is it the way I dress?
Lacoste,
Ralph Lauren,
La Tigre.
I’ve tried every designer out there.
Staying in the house really saves me money.
My stupid rich parents give me $50 a week for lunch.
$50 times 36 weeks …
what is that?
$1,000,
$2,000,
$10,000?
I should probably know.
Straight A’s 12 years in a row
and counting.

With all of this,
or none of this –
it depends how you look at it –
all I need is a friend.



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on Aug. 14 2010 at 11:35 pm
Ramonda S BRONZE, Kansas City, Missouri
2 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
Tough times don't last,
Tough people do.

you do have a friend :

 

GOD IS YOU FRIEND :)


Priya21 BRONZE said...
on Aug. 14 2010 at 10:30 pm
Priya21 BRONZE, Marietta, Georgia
3 articles 0 photos 21 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Be who YOU want to be, not what people tell you to be." -Me

I agree..completely relatable!

on Aug. 14 2010 at 12:39 pm
LoveTravelTell GOLD, Leftoverthere, Florida
15 articles 0 photos 16 comments

Favorite Quote:
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in my, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24.

:) i'd like to meet someone like that. they seem like they'd be quite interesting, and fun to converse with.

HazelKush GOLD said...
on Aug. 12 2010 at 8:29 pm
HazelKush GOLD, Odenton, Maryland
12 articles 10 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter." - Yoda.

Amazing style, completely relatable, really really awesome poem. Props, man, props.

on Aug. 12 2010 at 6:53 pm
can competely relate. it seems the bigger the house, the emptier it becomes. luv dddys wobm btw totaly relate

on Aug. 12 2010 at 5:09 pm
collegegirladventures GOLD, Mequon, Wisconsin
10 articles 8 photos 307 comments

Favorite Quote:
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

~Salman Rushdie

AH! i didnt know that this writer also wrote Daddy's Womb. I luuuuv that poem.

futurewriter said...
on Aug. 12 2010 at 4:11 pm
Well we all have our own opinions.

on Aug. 12 2010 at 11:38 am
starlight26 GOLD, Miramar, Florida
11 articles 7 photos 174 comments

Favorite Quote:
*life isnt about pretending to be something you're not. It about being who you are and finding someone
who loves every bit of it."

"Life's tradegy is that we get old too soon and wise too late"

Wow.GREAT poem. I didnt realize that you were the author of this poem, or daddy's womb/time I LOVE ur work. I have read daddy's womb several times and commented! Its one of my favorites. Keep Writing!

_Mags_ SILVER said...
on Aug. 12 2010 at 10:50 am
_Mags_ SILVER, Somewhere, North Carolina
9 articles 7 photos 436 comments

Favorite Quote:
- I stare danger in the face and giggle
- Never argue with an idiot, people might not know the difference
-R.A.P (Retards Attempting Poetry)
-Tip Cologne ryhmes with alone

i love this poem, and i knew a guy like you. Me and another girl tried to be his friend but then he just made fun of us

Kira77 BRONZE said...
on Aug. 12 2010 at 10:04 am
Kira77 BRONZE, York, Pennsylvania
2 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars".
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I really liked the honesty of this, and how I could hear your voice. As I was reading it, I could almost hear you in my head.

ksung said...
on Aug. 12 2010 at 12:41 am
ksung, Bellevue, Washington
0 articles 39 photos 19 comments
actually the pale body description only helps to emphasize his emotions and feelings. 

futurewriter said...
on Aug. 12 2010 at 12:19 am
Okay dude, your phrasing is incoherent, and that stuff about pale bodies was disturbing. Some things are better left unsaid.

on Aug. 11 2010 at 8:49 pm
weebnini DIAMOND, San Diego, California
55 articles 3 photos 164 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Done & Over"

"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength."

"People should be able to say how they feel. How they really feel. Not, you know, some words that some strangers put in their mouth."

agreed :) haha, we're there for you 

KelsieYellow said...
on Aug. 11 2010 at 2:57 am
I will be your friend.

Photo_97 said...
on Aug. 10 2010 at 1:28 pm
Photo_97, Ct., Connecticut
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im with justbreathe all the way

:)


on Aug. 9 2010 at 8:29 pm
songofheaven BRONZE, East Amherst, New York
2 articles 2 photos 51 comments

Favorite Quote:
I have found power in the mysteries of thought. -Euripides

Maybe you're right; maybe you're not. It was the only thing I could do for myself.

on Aug. 9 2010 at 6:59 pm
JustBreathe BRONZE, Peachland, Other
3 articles 0 photos 12 comments
I wish there were more guys like you around.  I'd be your friend :)

on Aug. 9 2010 at 5:37 pm
deardiary BRONZE, Saskatoon, Other
3 articles 0 photos 65 comments

Favorite Quote:
It is a truth universally acknowedged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. -Pride and Prejudice

u cant train urself not to need friends. everyone needs someone

kamarin said...
on Aug. 7 2010 at 10:25 pm
kamarin, Dayton, Ohio
0 articles 3 photos 13 comments

loved it

amazing


on Aug. 5 2010 at 2:27 am
OstentatiousNature BRONZE, Laingsburg, Michigan
4 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us that than people or things we're quoting" -John Green

beautiful and tragic simultaniously. great work