Tuesday, April 27, 2010

twenty-six.

The pens in the bottom of my
backpack are playing hide-go-seek.

Each afternoon, I reach inside, grasp,
pull out a new color. Pink, green, purple,

blue, black, the red I have grudgingly acquired
in this, my transition to responsibility.

Sometimes I achieve only a pencil. Sometimes
even less. Sometimes I find nothing but erasers.

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