Stone Soup

Where young artists paint the world with words

The international literary project for students 8 - 18. Stories, poems, and art by young writers and artists since 1973.

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Questions

I wonder what it would be like
To live in a world
Where I sound strange.
I wonder what came after before
But before history.
I’m supposed to wonder,
What? Where? When?
Those are the questions
I’m supposed to ask.
But instead, I always ask,
Why?
I think it’s annoying.
I think I don’t care.