By Ismini Vasiloglou, Age 11 By Art by Arjun Nair, Age 9
Keen Pointy Knife-Like Razor-Sharp Angled Piece Busts And Smears Ink Blots Most Sublime Yellow With Tiny Little Black Dark Lines Indented, In Divinely Wrapped Peeling Paper which Flakes Away with Each Sharpening Within the Motor with its Grating Noise Which Grinds at The Soul, Paper Peels Away like my Worries As I Pick up a Pencil And Write my Sadness Away like Stardust on a Blust’ry Eve, Finger Rubs ’Gainst Course Material Of Sun, Lemon School Bus, Gorgeous Golden Onion Skin Shaves Away And Ashen Grey-Colored Graphite Collects in Tube Like Powder Sugar Soon Turned Charcoal, Lovely Pole of Saffron Freeness Most Gorgeous Block of Fuchsia Elatedness which Allows a Take Back, Redo, Precious Second Chance That Disappears Too Fast.
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