valentines day poem #6

By Jacqueline Jackson

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this starts happy ends bad
the spirit club in the wisconsin
high school where my daughter
teaches decided to do something
nice to celebrate valentines day
on post-its they wrote encouraging
or complimentary words stuck
one on each locker you’re cool
keep up the good work we like
your smile when my daughter
arrived early on february 14 the
corridors were riots of color, joy
then the kids came in some jerks
went down the halls peeled off the
post-its restuck them on the locker
of a particularly popular kid so it
had 400 while the rest were bare
I asked over the phone did they
catch the ones who did it did they
do anything about it no said my
daughter she added I’ve always
hated valentines day

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