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All I Need Is a Friend MAG
Books fill up my room.
Not baseball cards,
or pictures of girls,
or basketballs.
Maybe a blown up picture of …
… Pam Anderson might help.
Black-framed glasses
and a white,
pale,
lanky
body.
I should start working out.
At least I can read.
I read four books a day last summer.
The librarian,
80-year-old Mrs. Woodsworth,
she knows my middle name.
If only I had a real friend.
I am sick of seeing her old,
bony,
pale body.
Although it resembles mine.
The kids at school laugh.
Is it the way I dress?
Lacoste,
Ralph Lauren,
La Tigre.
I’ve tried every designer out there.
Staying in the house really saves me money.
My stupid rich parents give me $50 a week for lunch.
$50 times 36 weeks …
what is that?
$1,000,
$2,000,
$10,000?
I should probably know.
Straight A’s 12 years in a row
and counting.
With all of this,
or none of this –
it depends how you look at it –
all I need is a friend.
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Beautiful.
i i love this poem, it is amazing.
keep on writing , & dont worry youll find a friend one day, you know what they say " good things come to those who wait " .
yea... i wish i got 50 bucks everyday for lunch !
sorry... couldn't help it, i'm poor.. :/
Swim Nut...
i DO NOT appreciate your last sentence.... ! but what's a girl to do ? its not like i can track you down and make you apologize.... :P
i liked this poem... :) it seems honest, but more like you're stating a fact then declaring something...
its true that you want something to change.... but how you change it depends on you. maybe if you get a friend things will change :) maybe nothing will change. oh, and for the record: dont change how you act just to get a friend. its stupid. you should be pale and a book worm as much as you want ! haha... i'm not saying this very well am i? O.o
ah well :) i said pretty much everything i wanted to say. i hope it helps.... hah not that you need help or anything... just that... um... well. hehehe...... yea. i'm pretty sure i've lost my point in writing this.......
PS I'd be your friend :)
would love to be your friend with writing like that.
don't let those kids laugh at you.
they don't know what they're missing.
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