Lessons Learned by a Fifth Grader on 9/11

Maxwell Baumbach's most recent poem to appear here was Summer Haze. The transitioning of ideas in this poem is particularly strong. I read it to my twin sixth graders in hopes they would hear the message. They got the first part of it but I have some work to do getting them to the concluding concept. Difficult concept for many of us though.

Lessons Learned by a Fifth Grader on 9/11
By Maxwell Baumbach

this 
is hate

not the vegetables that you don't want to eat
or your older sister that picks on you sometimes
or the kid who doesn't play basketball with you at recess

THIS
is hate

some people wish you were dead

now
more people wish death
on other people
most of whom don't deserve it

spherical disdain rotates
the axis of the earth

Posted by Annmarie at 9/12/2011 10:58 PM
Categories: today's words
Tags: Maxwell Baumbach 9-11 fifth grader lessons hate
 

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