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This is a poem about
being in high school

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and being in drama class.

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High School Drama.

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"I like the gels,
the reds, the blues.

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You could make it look
like fire or snow.

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In the scene in which I
am dead, the other actress

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is lovingly touching
me, lovingly touching me

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because I am her dead sister.

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And we have not survived
a prairie winter.

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Broken dishes, flying geese,
grandmother's flower garden,

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log cabin, crazy
double wedding ring.

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The whole scene, I don't
say a word the whole scene.

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The dress is hooked
and eyed and hooked

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and eyed up and down
our spines and necks.

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None of our mothers
were quilters,

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we had to make our own.

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The girls do not
know how to sew.

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I am the only girl
who knows how to sew.

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A man is hit by a train.

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The man is my husband.

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And my monologue, I talk
about laughing so hard.

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I like crazy the best.

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We could only do period pieces.

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Plays that were set in
time periods not near

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or in the one in
which we were living.

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My husband is returned
to me in so many pieces.

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My husband is returned to
me in a whiskey barrel.

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I am a woman whose
husband has died.

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I am a dead girl.

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Apparently, we are all so
tired because all night we

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were battling a prairie
fire with bags of burlap.

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The man at the general
store sells calico.

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The woman doesn't
have enough to buy.

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For the sales counter, we use
an ugly old theater block.

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I hate the theater block.

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I want real furniture.

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Bolts of muslin, yards and
yards that we can really cut.

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The cash register is pretend."

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