Last Wednesday I went to a reading event where the popular reading series Grownups Reading Things They Wrote As Kids (GRTTWAK) performed. Adults simply read aloud any piece of writing from their youth -- diary entries, poetry, letters -- to an audience that had never heard it before. It was the highlight of the reading event which was really a book launch for author Pasha Malla's Withdrawal Method ( a good book, but a boring launch).
Anyhow, the reading performance made an impression on me, so I'm going to share with you a poem I wrote in grade seven (age 13) entitled "Time" (Top). This breaks one of the GRTTWAK's rules -- "pieces must be read aloud" -- but I think the visual medium brings to it, another layer of funny.
In retrospect: I love how I am fretting the end of time upon just entering my teenage years. I don't know what the top right drawing of "woo pah" is about, but I'm pretty sure it is a visual representation of the force with which the hours have upon us, carefully quoting the character Chandler Bing of Friends. Deep. I think spelling "squeeze" as "squezze" is to indicate that at the age of 13, time is so hard pressing, you don't even have the time to spell correctly.
ha.
Please post yours. We can start a Big Girl/Boy Blogger posting series -- stuff we shouldn't post now, but will for kicks. One rule is that the original page must be scanned -- it maintains authenticity that way.
- A
