Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.
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The caterpillar is not trying to teach you anything. It's just eating a leaf.
You have brains in your head. You have shoes on your feet. But here's what the Doctor forgot to explain.
Eight balloons lean on the ceiling. Eight strawberries guard the cake. Eight friends arrive too loudly.
The paper graduation cap slides over one eyebrow. She has learned seventeen letters,
The score doesn't matter. I know it does. I know there are people who will read that sentence and close the poem.
There is an age— somewhere between three and five— when a child discovers the most powerful word in any language.
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