TITLE: The Plagiarizer’s Honesty By 07/14/09 |
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the part closed to ending with the word "down" is diagonal. (Though faithwriters program wont allow that...grr!)
anyway, thanks for your time and patience.
just a random question for all you "grammar people", a memoir can be A POEM, correct? I know they are mostly short shorties...but this is a short story...in poem form...? input is always welcome!
God Bless!
The Plagiarizer’s Honesty
A Memoir
My first grade teacher
Once read to us
A story
About
A cat.
I can’t remember
Anything about
The cat,
Or the long story.
But, I remember
How
Much
I
Loved it.
That story
About a
Cat.
So I grabbed
The book
Off the chalk ledge,
And
Began to
Diligently
Copy
That story
About a
Cat.
I loved
That book.
And it was a
L
O
N
G
Book.
But
I
wanted it.
So I
Could take it
Home
And read it
Again
And
Again
Because I
Loved
That story.
And I
Wanted it
Badly.
When I was
Half-way done
Copying
One of the boys
In the class
Called out
From across the room,
“You’re copying!
That’s against
The law!”
Horrified,
I looked up
At my
Teacher.
I was
confused.
I didn’t
Understand
What it was
That I
Had
Done
Wrong.
“You can’t
Copy
That story!”
He shouted
At me
Again.
My teacher told me
That it
Was okay
That I copied,
Only because
I didn’t know
Any better.
I
Cried
Because
I wanted
That
Story
To keep,
And I couldn’t
Have it
Because of that
Mean boy
Who shouted
At me
From across the classroom.
He
Hurt
My feelings.
He didn’t
Even
Say sorry
To me.
He said that I was
Plagiarizing,
And that
It was
Bad.
And I didn’t
Want to do
Something
Bad.
So I put
My paper
Away
In my desk,
And threw
The pages
Away
Later
In regret
For what I
Had done.
I closed the
L
O
N
G
Story up,
And put
My
Head
D
O
W
N
And
Cried
Until
School
Was out.
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