Short Ninth Grade Poems

argument over a ninth-grade child
never again did they speak
a misunderstanding...

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to get a high school diploma you must be able to read at a twelfth grade level
this was in 1952
In 1972 we were told “an eleventh grade level is good enough”.
Today reading at a ninth grade level means that you graduate.
I heard that at a seminar this morning....

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I sigh as the rich man cries... 

"I have too much stuff!"

but yet he still buys

I cry as I hear the poor man say...

"I am hungry"

but yet buys cigarettes every day

I  moan when a teen does say...

"I can't get a job" 

but yet he stopped school in the ninth grade

I grind my teeth when I hear a farmer say...

"I need money"

but yet he is to lazy to harvest his grain


I feel no pity for ones like these, for they bring it upon themselves to live in misery....

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