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Carole Roseland's avatar

I bet they thought twice about the Poet Laureate thing in the following year. No one could come up with this stuff! And the pictures are priceless!

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Vince Roman's avatar

I was a bizarre child

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Carole Roseland's avatar

A precocious one, obviously.

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Jed Moffitt's avatar

The poems are great and completely bizarre, though they don't deserve to be in the same mention with Tonya Harding's crowbar. Why didn't my kids have a teacher like you?

Cheers man.

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Vince Roman's avatar

Oh I’m not the teacher

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Jed Moffitt's avatar

Ah…the assumptions we make. It happens everywhere in life, and I am so often wrong. Did the teacher contribute to your poetic instincts? Seems like we all have a few memorable teachers that taught us most of the good stuff. Was this one of those?

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Themes and Deviations's avatar

Hysterical!!

Gotta be Astoria, Queens.

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Bryan Wiler's avatar

“Ones who get coal are really poor people” 😂. The harshest line I’ve read in ages.

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Vince Roman's avatar

My parents were not impressed

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