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How to Get Noticed in 9th Grade
Bel Canto Choir:
Invite your crush to your very first concert.
Sing like you're already an opera singer,
like you deserve to be a freshman in the auditioned choir.
Be grateful that the lights are so bright
that you can't see the crowd.
Say “I love you” back after you meet your crush in the lobby.
Tell yourself this is the beginning of high school.
P.E.:
Don't swat his hand away when he tugs at your shorts.
Don't cover his mouth when he brags
about the things you did at the park.
Don't look up as the other girls whisper, “She's not even ashamed.”
Pretend you don't hear them or
see him smiling.
Honors Geometry:
Avoid detention by never being late,
but also avoid eye contact with the upperclassman
that just watched your boyfriend push you into a locker.
Use one of your four bathroom passes on a really bad day,
so you can run your hands under cold water
to make them stop shaking.
Then, go back to class and draw your cylinders
like nothing is the matter at all.
Honors English:
Rather than read it,
use your hardcover copy of Great Expectations
to cover your arms in bruises
that you will pretend are from his hands after he's gone.
It's so much more poetic to say that the marks are from Pip.
Your favorite part of the book will be that the blue roses on your skin
stand out even more
cradling a failed English exam.
Your parents will wonder how you went from a 4.0 to this.
Honors Biology:
Your mom will have to tell your teacher everything
about why you missed the most important days of class,
but Mr. H will let you make up the dissections
and you will defile the fetal pig's body,
breaking its jaw, removing its heart,
imagining how roughly he handled yours.
And you will get an A.
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2014
How-to poem for my college Poetry Workshop