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My English teacher, nobody likes... If you go to my school, you would know her as Mrs. Cipriano. She's a great teacher, and even though I don't particuarly like her assignments, I understand why she does them... Whcih causes me not to argue about it as much.
She has a huge bookshelf in her class with some of the most strangest books ever... One of which would be "How Porcupines Make Love." Most of the kids in my class find it because, firstly, it has a lime green cover, so it's easy to find, and the title. No one ever actually looks through it.
Well, I did.
It doesn't have anything to do with porcupines at all, which is one of the reasons I find it interesting. Infact, it's a book of very small poems that takes a little more looking into than just read a regualr book.
It has many things in it. It has illusionary pictures with a poem as the lines, so it's hard to read, and things that look like signs with writing, but are actually symbols. It's weird... You'd have to see it. ^_^
So, I came across this peom, and I wasn't really paying any attention, so I decided to pick up the book and right down the poem because it didn't make much sense to me. I've decided to try and study it a little better.

"Countdown" by Ron Penoyer

T minus 60 seconds
and coutning
marbles on 4th street
which Joey collected
since 5-1/2
years ago the
buildings were new
but now they're
falling down
to T minus 50
on the Cape
and all systems are go
up street
to Stuyvesant which
is the end of the
world and beyond
it are monsters breathing
jet propulsion fuel
now disconnected from
the pad at T minus 40
all systems are green
light at the corner
by the delicatessen
where meat is grown
in white wax paper
and milk is made in
bottles like the ones
Daddy brings home to the
pad now cleared at
T minus 30 while voice
communications with
the world through the
welfare worker are not
proceeding at T minus
20 and now removed
from the launching room
are 2 dead rats and
Mammy is screaming
10,9,8,7 days till
the next check comes for
6,5,4,3 dollars or even
2,1 zero, ignition, Lift-off
to buy a pair of brand
new shining rockets

Like I said...Tthis makes no sense... If you read it, I want to know what you think it's about... Other than the fact that it's kind of weird.

(will be updated later... ^_^)