Done (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} been_a_book) wrote,@ 2007-11-08 18:46:00 |
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I thought I'd share a poem that my nephew wrote. For background, he's the stepson of my stepbrother, an uncontrollable 11 year-old British boy living in New Orleans in a beautiful old house in a pretty normal neighborhood for the area. He was of one of the luckier families during Hurricane Katrina, in that he, his mom and Jeff (my brother) packed up their stuff and their dogs in a tiny car and evacuated to Texas, where they lived with Jeff's grandmother, and Jeff and Vic got married. When they got back, things were okay at their home, but the city has more or less been in shambles ever since. He wrote this for a class in his fancy private school which is taught half in English and half in French, and he had to write a "I am from..." poem. It's better than what I would have written at 11.
I am from Austin Texas were nothing is small except the people
I am from computer games like Runescape with weird music lasting until dawn with Grady.
I am from put a sock in it and go to your room. And good foods like minestrone soup and Yorkshire puddings and English things.
I am from straight A's always.
I am from disaster and disorder.
I am from Saturday morning cartoons and birthday parties.
I am from a pack of wild dogs.
I am from chemistry and explosions that always go wrong.
I am from the crack in the ceiling.
I am from a family who loves me.
I am from 2 mutts that I love 1 a husky mix with Catahoula and a lab mix with pit bull.
I am from let's go pick up the Reginells and who ate all the cheese pizza.
I am from robo sapien to air hogs.
I am from made up lyrics to rimes.
I am from Target and Whole Foods.
I am from that little mistake you made on the paper.
I am from unicycleing to the Boulengerie.
I am from a family of very old people.
I am from do your homework to good job.
I am from the I am from up till 11.
I am from the next generation
