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AWaterways ProjectPublication

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Harry ~Toro Richard SpiegelBarbara Fisher

codlrectorsThomas Perry

! ; i administrative assistant

Miriam LockTeacher

East Brooklyn Congregations Schoolfor Public Service in Bushwick

Shirley Edwards

Principal

Stephen E. Phillipssuperintendent

Alternative High Schools & Programs

I997 Ten Penny Playerswith funding support from

the NY State Council on the Arts


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So far we have read poems inEnglish, also Greek dramawhich I'm glad we finished.

There are many types of stylesfor a poem and different ways a

person reads a poem with itsproper tone

I thank God for another day of life

to keep away from temptationand learn to sacrifice.

I'm glad for a home to sleep

and your love which I intend to keepFamily. friends, clothes and foodand preventing me from getting shot

in the neighborhood

You are my air. you are in your creationsand lost for the imaginationof writing this with no hesitation.

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Personal

I have two things that mean much to methat through the years I have keptOne is a picture of me about eight with my Dad

(R.I.P.)that reminds me of the good times a n dkeeps me

from being sadanother is a striped black wool shirtThat keeps me in my mind from being hurtI was the youngestHe's been gone for the longestbut I know he'll be back for me

So I would be right and the whole worldcould see

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The Saddest Day of My LifeR.I.P. My Dad

It's like it was yesterdaythat my father went awayI woke up one morningNot knowing the phone call will be of a sad storyeveryone in a rush to leave from the callIn a while later we were going past the hospital halls

through the floors and down the hallwaya shade of darkness in where my father had stayed

home awayOpening the door going insideTelling from the dryness, tears my mother had criedIn such surpriseMy father had passed awayNo time for me and God to compromiseAll of us around my fatherPraying for his soul to restAll my life was completely a fear and messNot all stories have a happy endingMemories were all that was left from his

funeral which I was attending.

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My Future

I am a teenager in high school

with big legit plans of living big and coolI dream of being a surgeon or a lawyeror an author like Mark Twainwith a beautiful home, phat car, moneyand my kids, a model for my wife, my honeyRolling with cellular phonesNot money is allbecause my knowledge has grown tallbe a guidance for young ones in the streetsProviding the homeless with homes and sheetsI feel for some ice creamHey! what's happening, oh, I forgot It's a dream!But doesn't mean it can't come trueBecause my life I control and rule!

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Having a Different AttitudeToward Differences

I come with the realnessleft right look feel thismy rhymes are createdwhile you're taking medicine'cause you say you're constipatedyour girl got DMS DT on your backand you owe some n-- dough or they'll kill youwhile laying in the sackPeops think you playingSo you knock 'em and pound them while they a layingjokes asideyou play with me you and your head's got no place

to hideIf you dare to step to me with a blade or a gunI'll be telling my murder of you to a priest or a nunA shot won't do. I advise opening me up and makesure my heart stopped pumping.because your life and anyone else be destroyedand your girl be hue one humping.

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I thank you God for another dayof life and thank you so I pray

I hank you God for a homefamily and friends so I wouldn't be alonefor clothes and foodwhile I'm making it in the hoodAlso thank God for the air and creatureswhich you add to this world it's beautiful featureLast but not leastI thank you for forgiving me and othersand help the ill and the homeless in shelters.

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Corporal Michael N. Toro

My brother Michael,whom I call Mike,is someone I respect and like.Every weekend he comes to visit.He teaches me many things.

When he's not home,

I hope it's him when the phone rings.He bought a carbecause he comes from very far;gives me money, helps me out

when I ain't smiling and have a pout.

The marines made a great man out of him.Maybe I might join. For now, I'll chilllike the wind through a windmill

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