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All I Need Is a Friend MAG
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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i love the simplicity and straightforwardness of the poem. and ill be your friend!! seriously tho..lol. and i knw what you mean. reading and writing is literally my life. i choose it over everything and no one understands it. i reed 400 page books in a day, only to start another one. my mom worries about me because she thinks "reading is my escape" and that i "live in these books and not the real world". but so what if i do? id say some constructive reading is a hell of a lot better than drugs or other abuses. your poem was great and i like how your so open about all of it. and i do have a lots of friends, and turn them down for reading all the time. (on the low) books are sumtimes better than people. lol. well, maybe thats just my oppinion tho. haha. great job:)
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