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Random Poem:

My Photo
TaylorC
My sister, looking puzzled, showed me	1
some photo she’d found in a drawer and said,	2
I don’t remember this. I eyed	3
the photo over, seeing my twelve-year-old	4
face, puffy cheeks. But I couldn’t see my	5
glasses, could not recall that light blue	6
t-shirt I was wearing in the photo.	7
The picture’s corners were dingy, yellowed	8
with time. Examining it closer,	9
I saw my green eyes	10
gone, replaced by deep-sunken blues.	11
It couldn’t have been me;	12

Or was it? My dad	13

asked why we were looking at his	14
school photo. Startled, I saw myself	15
in him, tracing his forty-year-old life	16
as mine. I could think of nothing more	17
frightening, except for that second when	18
I thought I’d forgotten being alive.	19
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