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12-21
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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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 Reviews of "12-21"
Reviewed by Mary Patterson
Reviewed on April 14, 2008
The teen years are hard for everyone. An eye opener......M

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on February 1, 2005
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