I wrote this poem because I was the new kid in 5th grade. There was so much the school had to offer but I felt excluded because everyone knew everyone and I was out of it. I like the alienating feeling the title and the ending gives because that was what it felt like in “the new school”. Not my school, THAT school. I made the poem more concise by cutting out unnecessary words ex. Like. Describing the excluded feeling needs work.

I made a change in the poem. At first it’s happy because I’m making a beginning. Then I have a change in the mood and I show the dark side. In the end I purposely break away the last line.