The Journals:  She told me to write, so I did.
My journal is something I started due to therapy.  Unfortunately little poetry has come out due to it.  Most of it has come out due the fact that I asked people for topics which stemmed into creative pursuit.  This so far is all I've gotten.  It starts at February 28.
"Life"-Topic by Judah

The blood lay spattered on the floor
Little girl hair ribbons
Pale white finger lay in pools
White lace of the communion
Sabbath dress
Holy day
Dead
On the seventh
We all try to forget
Our birthdays
"Green"- Topic by Francie

Green were her lips
As she sprouted wings
And flew away

Green was the boy
Who stood on the stoop
Bouquet in hand

Green were her thighs
As she spread them
The first time so wide

Red were her lips
As she fell blinded and weary
From a dark, night sky

Red were his cheeks
The flowers trampled
The door slammed

Red were her thighs
After her life
Had been raped out of her

Green was the world
Until man and industry came
And bled it all blood red
"Sex (69)"-Topic by Audrey

Turning over
And the world's inside out
Upside down
Suckle
Lke a baby child
I'm on a fire
Like a good girl
'Cause I'll show you mine
If you show me your's
"Do you think this was easy?"-Topic by a Poster I saw

Do you think this was easy?
Waiting for the light of day?
Knowing the sun would come up
Someday
If I keep waiting
"Cooking Light"-Magazine Title

Under the cooking light
I stirred my own red hot
Tabasco passion
Under the cooking light
I saw my life steep
Under the cooking light
I could see this beautiful gumbo
Would never be as sensual
As licking your lips could be
Instead of this big wooden ladel
Under the cooking light
Everything was warm
And smelled so good
And so clean
Until the morning
After the cooking light had been extinguished
And I knew my kitchen
Was as grey as my soul
On a Monday in February
"Creativity Made Easy"-Misinterpretation of Better Homes and Gardens

Open your soul
And your eyes
Meld your heart
And your pen
Sit close to the fire
Let your spirit dance with the flames
Know your fears
And idolize them
For this is
Creativity Made Easy
"...She explained the boy who did the shooting, "cried out for help, and nobody helped him.

Not family.  Not school officials.  Not any social security agencies.  Not the police...One neighbor said, "It took a killing to get these people out of here."
-Time Magazine, March 13, 2000 pg.28

Guns don't kill people, people do.  Not media, music, technology, movies, religion, or politics.

It's misguided children and misplaced aner

How many times will we say children can be cruel and brush it off?

Fags, Freaks, Pagans, Welfare Children, Outcasts, Runts, Rejects, when we say that they are enough and meaning something too?

When will they be listened to?

You can't ignore it, you can't deny it, and I won't die due to it.
This was written after I read the report on the boy who killed his 6 year old classmate in Time Magazine.  As a student, this is my reply.
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