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The Boy
By Angeline Tiamson
There was once a boy who lived on the streets
Only eleven years old, having to steal to eat.
There was no mom, there was no dad,
Actually, for this boy, life looked pretty sad.
But that was really just the surface.
There wasn't much in life this boy didn't miss.
He talked to his dad everyday,
And had a feast the king's way.
His smile never left his face
He would prance through the marketplace
He had dreams of a sweet life
All love, no strife.
Others could not understand his happy mood.
Afraid of his smile, they were quite rude.
And sometimes this got the boy down.
But a smile is always longer than a frown.
And love dwelled in his heart.
And no one could touch that part
Of himself.
http://library.thinkquest.org/3721/poems/angeline/boy.html
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Schoolkids' scientific theories ...
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Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should.
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Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water.
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The body consists of three parts — the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowels, of which there are five — a, e, i, o, and u.
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Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers.
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It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places.
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The wind is like the air, only pushier.
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Algebraical symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about.
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The right to be heard
does not automatically include
the right to be taken seriously.
— Hubert Humphrey
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Thanks to Zero Tolerance
Who invented zero tolerance
Deserves eternal fame.
With a few strokes of a pen
He made every case the same. An Uzi on a student's arm,
A nail file in a purse,
Neither one is tolerable,
And neither one is worse -- By rules of zero tolerance,
Where judgment's of no use,
Where weighing circumstances
Is a form of mind abuse. So thanks to zero tolerance,
There's equal punishment instead
Of all the tiresome effort
Of trying to use one's head.
— Dominic Martia
http://www.youthrights.org/poetry.php
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