Today I Want To Yell
thinking of
my grandma
who
lives in
heaven.
She is
the biggest
star
in the sky.
I wish
she would
come
back to me
but
that's not
my grandma
that's just
the shell.
My grandma
is still
at home
playing
diamonds
drinking
her pop
and eating
crackers.
Every
night
before
I go to bed
I say
"I love you."
Just them
three words
and then
"don't let
the bed
bugs bite"
because
they
will.
Jasmine Johnson
Golightly Educational Center
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ReplyDeleteJasmine has a future in poetry, doesn't she? The crackers and pop knocked me out--such an idiosyncratic detail. And the end is great, too.
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