# The school poetry assignment and the 10-year-old boy

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 12, 2009, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-school-poetry-assignment-and-the-10-year-old-boy/485513 "2009-02-12T10:38:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-school-poetry-assignment-and-the-10-year-old-boy/485513/21 "2009-02-12T20:32:54Z")

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Can I share a song? A song’s a poem in pixels, after all. This was composed on the fly by my just-turned 4 year old last night…

The rain is washing the trees  
The rain is washing on me  
The rain hits my window and scares me sometimes  
But it washes everything clean.

I wish I could share the tune with you! It was so, so cute.

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-school-poetry-assignment-and-the-10-year-old-boy/485513/22 "2009-02-12T21:04:06Z")

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my 11-year-old doesn’t have poetry I can offer up, but I came in to read this. Great stuff, CairoSon and RobardinDaughter - both are great.

jeez, I think of the hackneyed tripe I offered up in my 20’s when I was going through my Mr. Intensity period - these kids have me beat cold…

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**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-school-poetry-assignment-and-the-10-year-old-boy/485513/23 "2009-02-13T00:49:10Z")

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I love the song, **WnyNot** - I can hear James Taylor singing it in my head.

So, **Lamar Mundane,** your sister teaches at a school for expats in Jakarta? All I can say is, if she is my son’s teacher from either last year or now, she’s fabulous! If your sister teaches mixed 5th and 6th graders she almost certainly knows him. Now THAT would be a small world story.

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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-school-poetry-assignment-and-the-10-year-old-boy/485513/24 "2009-02-13T01:30:31Z")

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> [@CairoCarol](#):
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> I love the song, **WnyNot** - I can hear James Taylor singing it in my head.
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> So, **Lamar Mundane,** your sister teaches at a school for expats in Jakarta? All I can say is, if she is my son’s teacher from either last year or now, she’s fabulous! If your sister teaches mixed 5th and 6th graders she almost certainly knows him. Now THAT would be a small world story.

Small world.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-school-poetry-assignment-and-the-10-year-old-boy/485513/25 "2009-02-13T01:45:44Z")

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> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#):
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> Small world.

Wouldn’t want to paint it.

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