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Yanked From our Classroom chills, Kevin sat alone, Gazing longingly at us While sequestered behind a big stack of pills

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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Date: 3/29/2009 1:47:00 PM
A very strange moment frozen in time. I like it.
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Date: 2/13/2009 7:28:00 PM
John, most of the childhood memory poems I have read here are light and whimsical. Yours is uniquely disturbing, but truly a picture of what teachers (like myself) see in schools today. Very Good!! Carolyn
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Date: 2/8/2009 5:07:00 PM
Dark thoughts; deeply fraught, please dream divine scheme. Light & Love Debbie
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Date: 2/2/2009 3:01:00 PM
lots of people don't se the sadness in this piece but i do. i see the deep sadness. john
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