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Written In The Margin Of A Math Book MAG

By Anonymous

   I bought a Rod McKuen CD
for my mother as a thank you.
Listening to it in my room,
she knew all the words. We leaned
against my blue bed, under
the stars of my wallpaper. She closed
her eyes and sun, like foiled wrapping paper,
came in my windows for the first time that week ...
She sang: "I'll catch the sun
and never give it back again."

And I am left with this:
the unattended prom, the unfinished
poems, the undone braids, and
my mother's voice.




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on Jul. 8 2011 at 9:08 pm
CreativeOldSoul95 BRONZE, Plano, Texas
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Short and sweet but very touching! Love the impression it left me with! 

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on Aug. 21 2010 at 4:53 pm
Lucy(: GOLD, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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woww, this is gorgeous.

it has so much hidden mesning that is there only for the reader to unfold.

check out my poem too (: