MATTIE STEPHANEK SEVEN YEAR OLD DISABLED POET

THE BEAUTY OF BEING A POET ANY DISABLED SEVEN CAN REACH MANY READERS BEING A POET ISN'T TAUGHT IN A UNIVERSITY IT COMES FROM THE SOUL THE HEART AND SOUL OF THE SMALLEST HUMAN BEINGS TODAY AND EVERYDAY I'M INSPRIED BY LITTLE MATTIE STEPANEK SEVEN YEAR OLD DISABLED POET WHAT WONDERFUL WORLD MATTIE DIED AT AGE 13 HE WRITTEN SEVERAL BOOKS OF POETRY THE TRUE DEFINITION OF BRING A POET ISN'T TAUGHT IT COMES FROM THE SOUL ANY SEVEN YEAR COULD WRITE BEAUTIFUL POETRY SO MANY DISABLED PERSONS FEEL.LIMITED WITH WHAT SOCIETY SAYS THEY CANNOT NOT ACHIEVE I WRITE EVERY SINGLE DAY A POEM A VERSE REST IN PARIDISE MATTIE EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY DOESN'T LIMITATIONS BELIEVE AND YOU CAN ACHIEVE DURING SLAVERY AFRICAN AMERICANS WERE TORTURED FOR READING AN YET THEY BECAME BRILLANT MINDS IT US VERY IMPORTANT TO ENCOURAGE YOUNG POETS TO WRITE I WROTE MORE POETRY WHILE BLEEDING BRAIN INJURED MOST POETS BECOME FAMOUS AFTER DEATH AFTER MENTAL BREAK DOWNS DEPRESSION MENTAL ILLNESS IS THE PERFECT TOOL FOR JOURNALING CREATING POETRY AND SONG TOTALLY ABSENT FROM ANY COLLEGE CLASSES POETRY IS FROM THE SOUL NOT TAUGHT OR LEARNED GOD BLESS YOUNG MATTIE STEPANEK FOR TEACHING SO MANY SCHOLARS HOW TO BE A POET YOU JUST WRITE MY POETRY IS USUALLY ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS PANIC ATTACKS DEPRESSION PTSD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE KEEPING MY MIND WRITING HELPS ME COPE WITH MY PAIN AND SUFFERING I WRITE OF LOVE WEARING WIRES PREGNANT THINGS FAMILIAR TO MY HEALING I WAS BASICALLY IN SHOCK TO KNOW A COLLEGE STUDENT WAS TRYING TO EXTORT MY MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL SEATED WITH AN ARSON MURDERER OBSESSED WITH MY DEATH MY BEING AN FBI INFORMANT I WROTE VERY AFFECTIONATE POEMS BEING A MILITARY WIFE TOURING GERMANY MY GRANDFATHER SERVING IN ROME PROTECTING THE ARCH BISHOPS AND PRIEST I ALSO WROTE ABOUT WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS LANGLEY THE BUREAU I AM NOT A SCHOLAR JUST AN FBI INFORMANT A MOTHER A GRAND MOTHER A GREAT GRANDMOTHER WHO SUFFERED SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS AND KELP A JOURNAL INITIALLY MY POETRY WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL IT HELPED ME COPE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS I WAS TAUNTED HUMILIATED CALLED A RETARD I DIDN'T CARE MY 8 CHILDREN WERE MY CRITICS THEIR TEACHERS LOVED MY POEMS I ALLOWED THEM TO READ A FEW FOR CLASS PROJECTS THAT WAS IT MY SONS TEACHER ENCOURAGED ME TO ENTER MY POEM IN THE MONTEL WILLIAMS POETRY CONTEST 1999 AFTER MY NERVOUS BREAK DOWN AT WORK ON MACDILL AIRFORCE BASE I ENTERED IT BEGAN A FEW YEARS LATER GARGANO BEGAN STALKING ME SENDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS JAMAICAN TALIBAN FEMALES TO BREAK INTO MY HOME SHOOTING IN MY HOME FINALLY ARRIVING WITH A GUNMAN FEARING MY SAFETY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL CHARLIE CRIST SAVED MY LIFE GARGANO THEN IGNITED A CAR BOMB IN MY FACE RESULTING IN SEVERE INJURIES BUT GOD IS SO GOOD I CONTINUED WRITING BROKEN GRAMMER OFF WORDS MISSPELLED I REMAINED INSPIRED BY MATTIE THE SEVEN YEAR OLD WHO SAID ANYONE COULD BE A POET EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY SO I WROTE ABOUT GROWING UP IN CHICAGO BEING BORN AT HOME DURING A CIVIL RIGHTS RIOT I WAS ASHAMED BECAUSE PARTIAL BLINDNESS FROM A CRUSHED EYE SOCKET I COULDN'T EVEN EDIT THEN I JUST WROTE LIKE A CRAZY PERSON TYPING WITH ONE FINGER BECAUSE MY HAND WAS CRUSHED IN THE CAR CRASH DETERMINED YES IT JUST FELT GOOD JOURNALING I WROTE OF MY LIFE EXPERIENCES BEING A MILITARY WIFE STATIONED IN GERMANY WORKING FOR USAF AS A DAYCARE TEACHERS READING TO HUNDREDS OF CHILDRENS ALL SPEAKING DIFFERENT LANGUAGES LIVING IN EUROPE INSPIRED ME TO WRITER CHILDRENS BOOKS FOLKLORES I LIVE IN MUNICH GERMANY TOY TOWN CHRISTMAS TOY THE TOWN OF THOMAS MANN MY MIND SOARED I WROTE OF FRAUENKIRCHE OUR LADY OF MUNICH WHERE I MET CARDINAL RATZINGER WHERE THE FAMOUS TELSFELSTRICT THE FOOT PRINT OF THE DEVIL WHEN LOCAL LORES SAY VON POLLEN WAS APPROACHED BY SATAN TO CLOSE OFF THE NAVE INSTEAD OF WINDOWS I ADORED MUNICH MARIANPLATZ A TOWN DEDICATED TO MOTHER MARY TOURING EUROPE ITALY MY GRANDFATHER SERVIVING IN ROME PROTECTING THE PRIEST I AM NO SCHOLAR WORKING FOR THE USAF BEING A MILITARY WIFE YOU LEARN TO APPECIATE MANY CULTURES I WROTE OF MEETING CICELY TYSON DURING HER DEBUT FOR THE MOVIE SOUNDER SHE VISITED MY 3RD GRADE CLASS YOU NEVER KNOW WHO WILL INSPIRE YOU MY WRITING WAS AND STILL IS UNCONTROLLABLE ITS PART OF MY DISABILITY UNCONTROLLABLE WRITING TRIGGERED BY MY UNCONTROLLABLE NEED TO READ EVERY LICENSE PLATES IN MY MIND THESE ARE THREATS MESSAGES FROM MY WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI I SUFFERED A COMPLETE MENTAL BREAK CHRONIC PTSD ANXIETY PANIC DEPRESSIONS SUICIDAL THOUGHTS CREEP IN ONCE THE WRITING STOPS YOU MIND CAN'T TAKE THE SILENCE AS WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF HER VERY BEST WRITING WAS FROM A MENTAL HOSPITAL PLAGUED WITH DEPRESSION MENTAL ILLNESS AND UNCONTROLLABLE WRITING RESULTED IN HER PLACES STONES IN HER POCKETS AND WALKING OUT INTO THE LAKE HAVING A MENTAL ILLNESS OF THE MIND THAT CAUSES UNCONTROLLABLE WRITING ESCALATED FOR ME ONCE MY BRAIN WAS BROKEN BY TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY THE BRAIN DESPERATE TO STAY ALIVE IT SENDS A CHEMICAL IMBALANCE CAUSING UNCONTROLLABLE WRITING ALL DAY JOURNALING BECOMES A MEDICAL NEED I WAS TAUNTED TEASED BROKEN MESSEGES IF YOU ONLY HAD A BRAIN MY WRITING IS FOR COPING HEALING SURVIVING MENTAL ILLNESS BEING EMOTIONALLY CRIPPLED UNABLE TO BE IN CROWDS OR TO CROSS A STREET CAUSED ME GREAT STRESS IT WAS TRULY A BLESSING THAT I HAD WRITTEN MY LIFE EXPERIENCES TRAVELING TO EUROPE STATIONED IN GERMANY THE CULTURE OF THOMAS MANN NO I'M NO SCHOLAR I CAN'T STAND UP IN A CROWD AND READ MY WORK ANXIETY PANIC ATTACKS HEART ATTACK MY WRITING IS FOR HEALING PTSD SOOTHING PANIC ATTACKS COMFORTING TRAUMATIC EVENTS QUIETING THE VOICES THE HEART BEATS THE CONVERSATIONS WIRE TAPS STRAPPED TO MY WOMB THIS SENT ME INTO A SUICIDAL STATE SPIRITUAL WONDERING WHAT DAMAGES WAS DONE TO MY FETUS BEGGING GODS FORGIVENESS BEGGING GOD TO ALLOW ME TO KILL MYSELF AND GO TO HEAVEN SHOCKING MY BROKEN BRAIN SIGNALED ME TO WRITE UNCONTROLLABLE WRITING MY MENTAL ILLNESS LEFT ME WRITING CONSTANTLY UNCONTROLLABLE WRITING BECAUSE I WASN'T A SCHOLAR JUST A RETARD WRITING ABOUT PANIC ATTACKS HEADACHES BRAIN INJURY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WEARING WIRES PREGNANT MY CHILDREN HEARING MY FETUS HEART BEATS I WROTE ABOUT BEING MENTALLY CRIPPLED THE RETARDED POET FROM CHICAGO FBI INFORMANT IN HIDING MAROON DRAPES PANIC ATTACKS IN FLORIDA WITH A BRUISED BRAIN I NEVER FORGOT WHO I WAS WRITING FOR MY CHILDREN GRAND WRITING TO SAVE MY BRAIN FROM DYING I WAS THE RETARDED POET I AM COMPLETELY ADORED THANK GOD GIVING THE GIFT OF WRITING BLESSINGS EDITING YOUR WORK IS MUCH EASIER NOW WITH TECHNOLOGY TODAY GRAMMER CORRECTING DIFFERENT LANGUAGES HOWEVER I STILL KNOW I AM A RETARDED POET AND THAT'S OKAY MY POETRY IS NOT SCHOLAR MATERIAL JUST POEMS I WROTE WHILE HELPING MY KIDS WITH THEIR HOME WORK THEY ARE TEACHERS ARCHITECTS STEM AERO SPACE ENGINEERS GIFTED GENUSIS HONOR SOCIETY ARMY AIRFORCE DRONE PILOTS THERAPIST I'M SO BLESSED I AM BEAUTIFUL I AM BROKEN I AM BLESSED I AM ME I AM A RETARDED AMERICAN POET GOD BLESS AMERICA I AM LIVING PROOF THAT ANY RETARD COULD TRULY BE A POET USA