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Teen life
by Henry Burt Stevens
04/15/2004
Being a teen is hell
pressure, questions all the time
answers scarce changing
push me pull me
punch me kick me
why am I always wrong
and they are always right?
If I write a novel
with my pictures
about a serial killer
and turn it in at school
I'll get expelled
sent to the school shrink
profiled by the cops.
If a retired police officer
writes about a serial killer
he's expressing art.
But the biggest bummer
is no one will listen to me
I would just like to talk
without being advised,
corrected, put down
ratted on, walked away from--
Isn't there anyone who will just listen?
I'll be happy when I am twenty-two.
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