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I am bored so why not share my poem I had to wirte this week for english. We had to write a poem based on a picture, but since I had to turn in the picture, all you need to know is that this takes place during the dust bowl.

Nir Levy
January 24, 2005
8C, ‘of Mice and Men’ Unit

Not Much Left

I stare into the emptiness
that was once so full of life.
I must care for my two children
without a loving wife.
An endless span of worthless land
is almost all that’s left.
Perhaps there is no future here;
nothing but God’s theft.

Why did God steal my farm
leaving it as dirt and mud?
My car is now my prized possession
and my land is just a dud.
What aches me is not my dieing land,
but the kids that beg to live
and that the seeds that beg to drink
but I have nothing to give
and nothing to provide.
What can the future hold for an old man like me?
All that matters is lost,
turned into debris.
 

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