Look Around

J.D. Souza, Class of 2027

Crowded city, packed with people
Tall buildings hanging over your head

Street performers dancing to the sound of music 

Different types of Stores all around filled with excitement 

Food stands that smell so good 

People dressed up as movie characters 
Asking if you want to take a picture with them, 
But don’t 
It will cost you $500

Beautiful sites to see

Seeing the NBC News building and getting on tv in the background 

Skating on outdoor rink outside of Rockefeller plaza 

The best restaurants with the BEST food ever

So if you go to New York just look around.

Messed Up Backpack

by Robert Collings, Class of 2027

In my tiny backpack, I found…

A big, blue wristband  
stinking and waiting to be washed again 

A decomposing, blood-red leaf  
saying Goodbye cruel world!

An almost-empty bag of Cheetos 
saying EAT MEEEEEE!

My fake wallet 
           untouched 
waiting for me to use it 

A piece of grass
and…
another piece of glass 
Where is that from?

 My dog tags 
hard and gray 
                          I don’t have anything to say

 My sport glasses 
blood red 
if it was a human he would be dead 

Look Around

by J.D. Souza, Class of 2027

Crowded city, packed with people
Tall buildings hanging over your head

Street performers dancing to the sound of music 

Different types of Stores all around filled with excitement 

Food stands that smell so good 

People dressed up as movie characters 
asking if you want to take a picture with them, 
but don’t 
it will cost you $500

Beautiful sites to see

Seeing the NBC News building and getting on tv in the background 

Skating on outdoor rink outside of Rockefeller plaza 

The best restaurants with the BEST food ever

So if you go to New York just look around.

My Smelly Buddies

by Thomas Carroll, Class of 2027

My helmet, the most important thing in my bag

My gloves, equivalent to a nuclear bomb in stench 
That’s why I tell people to clench 
                                                      their nose 
It could take down an entire civilization
Or is that just my imagination?

My skates, my wheels 
Everyone tries not to squeal 
When they see me flying on my wheels 

My stick, something way too expensive 
That’s pretty inoffensive, 
                                                    right?

And my shoulder pads, growing smaller by the days 

My knee pads, my saviors 
If I didn’t have those, I wouldn’t have legs 
that’s why I beg not to have chicken legs

My jersey, a velvet red with a tint of blue
Is it really true, mama?
Are you making beef stew?
Ewww.

My elbow pads, they’re no fad

Paintball Thriller 

~Tommy Belin, Class of 2027

Ratttttttttttttttttat…..!

     “Was that auto fire”? I say. “That was like a lawn mower engine.”

     I peek around the building – BOOM, BOOM – paint splatters on the wall. 

     “Awwwww he sees me,”   I think in my head.   “Wait, is that Robert?” 

     I peek again – BOOM, kerSPLOOSH – a head shot. 

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