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Will sent me a link to an Onion article I had forgotten, but, of course, LOVED.
For anyone else in the "Department of Corrections" (Why did I assign 1,750 word papers to 40 students?)...

Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn't Stand Up To Peer Review

DECATUR, IL-A three-member panel of 10-year-old Michael Nogroski's fellow classmates at Nathaniel Macon Elementary School unanimously agreed Tuesday that his 327-word essay "Otters" did not meet the requirements for peer approval.

Hope

Like a daisy
fresh with spring's kiss
white petals of promise
drop away through seasons
until left with a yellow core
that withers, fades,
and dies.

I did not plan to write a dark poem, nor any poem at all. The words are here because of anger, fury, and pain. I look at this picture and remember so much promise; a cascading giggle, visions of placid domesticity, two new lives that brought such joy...and I remember the betrayal, the struggle, the hardship, the numbing, and now that sweet soul whose laugh I haven't heard in years, lying yellowed and withered on fresh white sheets.

I was the flower girl, that short egg-yolk blot.
And Eliot was wrong; March is the cruelest month.

why is it that...

stress makes me so danged
tired
sick
fat
?