Monthly Archives: August 2010

Because I Can

18th
Aug. × ’10
By Amy Simone Piller

Because I have recognized
that this school does not work
I am leaving for another.
All of you who I have professed
to do my best by are going to stay
because you don’t have another option.
Because your mother doesn’t have time
to help you apply somewhere else
because your test scores weren’t high enough
to spark someone’s interest
because you’ve been suspended a [...]

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Prescribed Burn

10th
Aug. × ’10
By Amy Simone Piller

First light your blanket on fire
and all things associated with cildhood crying
next take the books you absorbed
and douse them in gasoline
that you drink before bed
and as your dreams incinerate
feel the space recreating
in your lungs in your mind
notice the people who drove you craziest
probably had the most problems to digest
burn windows, burn lenses, burn ledges, burn [...]

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Ode to Education

10th
Aug. × ’10
By Amy Simone Piller

May each child be prepared to think and learn and know
and go home each day feeling as if today they’ve grown.
May the underpinnings of each mind sparkle in every eye
May the children come tomorrow because their teachers care
May this room become a respite and the safety therein compel
each child in its embraces to spread the [...]

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Lobster Love

10th
Aug. × ’10
By Amy Simone Piller

Tentacle gently
pinch me, convince me
Let’s plumpen each other
May I feed you
won’t you feed me?
Later destroy me
undo me, contort
reconstrue me
Besides, we were too constrained,
So come on expand me
take my joints, misalign me
I’m fine lf you’re willing and near
Let me clasp you, trap you,
lobster pot rubber band you,
risk ten degrees higher
lets dive in the bubbling thrill
give me [...]

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