005 Poetry

October 24

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Philip POV

We started doing a poetry unit in class which I am so happy about! I'm ecstatic! That's a word my teacher, Ms. Washington taught me.

(yea I notice the "Ms." hehehhheh)

I wrote a poem for my dads and they really liked it.

"Philip! That was so good!"

"MY SON IS BETTER THAN THE SUN OH MA LORD!"

"Thanks," I said fidgeting with the binder paper I wrote it on. Dad hugged me and then Pa picked me up and put me on his shoulders like he does every time he's proud of me. I'm up here a lot, I guess.

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At school the next day, we got an assignment to write a poem and illustrate it.

"You should write a poem no longer than a page. And you will be drawing on them to help represent the poetry itself. You may work with one partner if you wish," Ms. Washington explained.

I smiled and looked at Theo. She's really good at drawing. I'm really good at poetry. Maybe we'll work together. "Hey Pip, do you wanna work with me?" She whispered as Ms. Washington went on. YAY!

"Totally!"

"Cool!"

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We worked at my house usually, because her mom works late so we'd home alone. Oof.

Theo drew a unicorn and fairies and flowers as a "warm up." They were so pretty. We should write a poem about fairies and unicorns.

"Those are really pretty, Theo."

"Thanks. They're still just a warm up. This isn't very good."

"Are you kidding?"

"No."

"Oh. Well I still think they're really good."

Then our poem/drawing was complete!

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"My name is Philip, I am a poet, Theo's good at drawing and she's here to show it," I started. She held up the picture and I continued the next line.

"We're only eight and nine. Unicorns and fairies magically shine," I said. She pointed to the fairy and I finished the poem.

"Unicorns drink from a rainbow river bank. Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinque!"

(I'm not a poet. I just used stuff that rhymes. Fite mE.)

"Philip, that was very nice. Your rhymes were very clever! Theodosia, your fairies are really beautiful! You drew them yourself?"

"Yeah.."

"Wonderful. Everyone give Philip and Theodosia a round of applause!"

The class clapped for us and we sat down. I felt good.

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(let's have some Pip/Theo Halloween shall we? this is gonna be an odd chapter haha..)

I decided to dress up as my favorite historical figure, Anthony Ramos. Theo dressed up as an 80's popstar. She looked like a rainbow threw up on her.

Never mind.

My dad dressed up as the rainbow flag. Haha.

Pa didn't dress up. He decided to sit at the door and give out candy. Dad did too, but at least he dressed up hahhahaahah.

Theo and I trick or treated together just around the neighborhood. We were having a competition to see who would get more candy.

When we came back to my house to count, I ended up with 197 pieces. Theo had 201.

(Idk how much that really is. I just used 19 and 7 for Philip because heheheheheh)

"You won!"

"Yay! I'm the queen of candy!"

"At least I got more snickers."

"Well I got more gummy bears so there," she said holding several bags up to show me.

"I don't even like gummy bears."

"You what?!"

"I like chocolate stuff," I said stuffing three of the fun size snickers into my mouth.

"I can tell!" She laughed. I joined in.