Monday, April 21, 2008

day 21: a poem a day

The prompt today in the Poem A Day Challenge is to use a snippet of an overheard conversation. Since I teach Kindergarten, I overhear a lot of comments between little people which one would seldom hear coming from adults. One thing all teachers of little people hear with regularity is the dreaded....

You’re Not My Friend Anymore

The good morning song
is interrupted by fatal words
proclaiming the dissolution
of friendship between
one five year old and another.
In Kindergarten, solidarity
is a tenuous proposition
hinging on simple acts:
the reclaiming of an offered toy
a decline to share fruit roll ups
or the choice to sit next to
someone else.

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