i belong here

 

this is my grass

this is my tree

this is my mountain

this is my sand

this is my moon

this is my valley

this is my thunder

this is my ocean

this is my butterfly

this is my color

this is my autumn

 

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it is still the best poem i've ever heard

perhaps the best poem ever written:

 

 

i love the shape of your nose

i love the shape of your nose

even with both eyes closed

i love the shape of your nose

 

By Bill Perry

 

 

but we have to go back

the sun is coming down

mother is calling

the food is ready

 

it was fun to play with you

but my family loves me

and i love them

 

i haven't written my sister

in five years

 

last i heard

she was living in the car

 

the swans are dying

the lake has receded so far that

the end of the pier is ten feet away

from the edge of the water

 

there aren't many fossils here

not too many interesting shells

 

when my toes sink in the mud

i feel like i am sinking in the mud

 

maybe

i'll be a fossil

 

in some other boy's ocean

 

maybe

i'll be a diamond