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O’Brien’s Gun

By Anna Castillo

A gun’s cause’s harm

To the innocent

And gives fairness to the verdict

It’s not really the gun but,

The soul behind the gun


Why Reading Is So Important To The World

By Leanne Chun

Reading. Books. Even if the two are generally frowned

upon in our day and age, they shouldn’t be. Books are

the things that raised our nation. John Adams, Thomas

Jefferson, John Hancock, and countless others used books, or


My Eyes Have Seen

By Jill Forrester

My eyes have seen,

My ears have heard,

The special beauty,

Of a kind world.



Those who do,

And those who do not,

They have shaped,

What it is I have got.


Kathy O’Brien

By Alexandra Gordon

So much stress is on my mind,

she’s your daughter just as much as she is mine.

I brush her hair and iron her sweater,

when the winter brings such unfriendly weather.

You might say your work is rough,