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My Job: Will O'Brien, policeman

By Ryan Fitzgerald

I met a woman

Old as dirt

Yet nice as the morning sun,

Living where some considered

The worst part of town

Yet somehow

She finds time

To knit me a sweater

Of dark green string

Straight from the soul


Officer Bill O’Brien

By Alexandra Gordon

My job is so exhausting,

I don’t have time for parenting!

Maybe my wife should try fighting crime,

and I can stay home all day wasting time.

All she does is cook and shop and clean,

I don’t understand how it’s difficult to do those things.


O’Brien, 35: Patrol officer

By Emma Van Lieshout

Walking up and down every street,

Every day – thump, thump, thump

Go my boots.



Walking past the park

Every day – thump, thump, thump

Goes the wino’s stereo.


About My Life

By Brady Barnes

I messed up with my life

Now I get held with a knife

I am out here trying to survive

I’m glad I’m still alive

I sit in JDC

Thinking how my life is going to be

My dad told me I would be aborted

To my mom I was important