Thursday, August 31, 2006

tanka (for Paperback Writer)

I can smell the chalk

dust...picture all my shiny

new school supplies and

ideals just waiting to be

worn down to nubs and fragments.

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You get two extra lines, Paperback Writer, just because you're so cool and also because I couldn't contain the idea that your poem inspired in 17 syllables!

6 comments:

Paperback Writer said...

Whoo!

I should print your poem (and mine) out for Loki.

Thanks, Honey!

Osquer said...

Definitely! Give it to him with my love!

Pat Paulk said...

Very good Osquer!!

Osquer said...

Thanks, Pat! That first day of school feeling is such a vivid memory.

Paperback Writer said...

Man, was he tired today after school! He told me that he has three kids with unmedicated ADD. And again, he apologized for being a bear this year.

J. Andrew Lockhart said...

It's that time! :)