I was on my way to work at the radio station,
and I saw a man on the corner of Jefferson Street.
He was very tall and had thick,
beautiful,
brown hair.
I walked into work just in time to start my morning show.
I’m on air and now everyone in LA can hear me.
“Hello LA! Its Rachel!
And I’m giving away free Katy Perry concert tickets.
We’re cleaning the world
And making it healthier
Will you help us clean?
He’s on the other side
Looking out —
Trapped– afraid
That one day he won’t be at the gate
No parents to watch over him–
No father to teach him–
Nothing
All alone in his own little world
With only one friend–
Who he can’t always see.
Soccer
Lacrosse
Golf
Basketball
I could make a living with these.
But owning a hotel
is what I really want to do.
The Rock Stat Hotel–
I can see it now–
In big… red… lights!
My mommy, daddy, and sister
Living in a suite!
My grandmothers can live with them!
And my cousins too!
Bass drum shaped water beds!
Guitar shaped chairs!
Keyboard desks!
And speaker systems!
I’M THE BEST!
My dog is cool
He can’t come to school
I walk him late
His leash is straight
I do not sin
Nor do I drink gin
We will walk in June
Let’s hope my mom will soon!
There was a blue balloon
All alone at the county fair–
Sad because there was no one for him,
All of the other balloons had a partner–
But not him.
While on the Ferris wheel he spotted– the one.
It was a wonderful pink with polka dots–
Their people were suddenly in love–
So they got closer and closer–
And in the end they became purple!
Buzz, buzz go the bees
Flutter go the butterflies
And croak goes the frog!
I am flower all alone in a field. Why did they leave me, will they ever come back? My petals are bent over in shame the field behind me--barren. Why didn't they stay, is something wrong with me? My arms are spread out-- looking for someone to hug me. Where are you, are you on your way? Oh, there you are come here! Where have you been? Inspired by a Roe Ethridge Painting from MoMA
“Cannonball!” my brother Hayden screamed, as he jumped off of the boat with the arm holes of his life jacket around his legs, like a diaper into the Chesapeake Bay. I thought he was going to hurt himself because of how he put it on but he didn’t. The day had just begun, but so far I knew that this would be the best boating trip we would ever go on. It was the Fourth of July and my family went boating with our good friends Jason, Christy, Emme, and Grady.
We we left early in the morning and took their 32 foot long boat from their house, in East-port, across the Chesapeake to a cove where we like to play. It’s our favorite cove because there’s a rope swing above the water and a dock with a slide. The adults were all in a big circle drinking beer. We thought they looked silly because they had their life jackets on the same way Hayden had his. While Emme and I played on the rope swing. I thought I was going to fall off the rope swing because the last time we had gone on it I fell off when it was too shallow and hurt my leg.
“Kids, get on the boat we’re about to go tubing,” , my mom yelled. We all quickly swam and got on the boat. We were almost ready to leave, and Emme asked, “Dad, can Kate and I ride the raft there?” So, her dad put the raft in the water still connected to the boat. I jumped onto the raft and the raft started to drift away. Emme jumped off the boat and started swimming out to the raft. While she was getting up her leg floated underneath the raft and a school of jellyfish stung her.
“Help, help!”, she screamed. I thought something horrible happened like she was bitten by a shark, so I asked.
“What’s wrong?” I asked having no idea what had happened.
“I got stung by a jellyfish!” she screamed in terror. I pulled her up onto the raft and saw her leg covered in big, puffy, red splotches. I was disgusted. I didn’t know what to so I yelled…
“Christy, Christy!” I yelled, “Help!” “Pull us in!” I screamed as if Emme was dying. Christy didn’t know what happened, until she saw Emme laying down in the raft crying. Christy started yelling too because she thought Emme’s leg had been bitten off by a shark. There weren’t any people around so the yelling seemed really loud. (Even though we were in the Chesapeake Bay the scene could’ve been described as a shark attack) Christy finally pulled us up to the boat. When we told her what happened, she was relieved Emme hadn’t gotten her leg bitten off and she went to the cooler to get beer for me to pour on her leg and a credit card to scrape off the tentacles and jelly.
Once I cleaned Emme off, we made a promise not to go back in the water for the rest of the day. I thought the rest of the trip was ruined. But not going in the water didn’t stop our fun. We sat in the bottom half of the boat where there are beds and a T.V. to watch the fireworks. The fireworks were beautiful, even though we watched them through the port hole by the bunk beds. It wasn’t the day I had planned, but we had a great day and we still got to enjoy the breathtaking Fourth of July fireworks over the Chesapeake!