RIDICULOUS YOU

check out this poem by 3rd grade student omari from visitation catholic school -- it's pretty intense. he wrote it during a workshop on "chants." totally unprompted, it just poured out of him (we were all writing about nature, he was writing this). omari...he's a beautiful, strange, round stuttering child, and i have a feeling he'll be writing poems his whole life. it's an amazing privilege to run into our future's poets. big love to all of you. xoxo, a

RIDICULOUS YOU.

You are full of mistakes.
You are full of mistakes.

No, I definitely am not.
You are full of mistakes.

Did you spill your mother's coffee?
You are full of mistakes.

You ain't perfect, I tell by your looks.
You spit vomit on your history books.
You are full of mistakes.

Why do you think your hair's in a bunch?
You are full of mistakes.

Gee, you're a tough cookie, see, you crunch.
You are full of mistakes.

I don't gotta do whatever you say.
You are full of mistakes.

Well, don't say it tomorrow! Say it today!
You are full of mistakes.

I hate you, I wish you are dead.
You are full of mistakes.

I'm going to tie you up with needle and thread.
You are full of mistakes.

And how exactly are you gonna do that?
You are full of mistakes.

I'll ask my mom, we'll see about that.
You are full of mistakes.

Oh, yeah, right, ya think you can try
to even make me slightly die?

Quit talkin' trash. You've got a rash.
You've caused ants by the Stikko's you smashed. -- (stikko's are chocolate swirl cookies).
You are full of mistakes.

Well, I ain't perfect and neither are you.
As a matter of fact, I hate you too.

You are full of mistakes.