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Miss Gayle's 5 Steps to Slam Poetry,
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a lesson of transformation.
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Write it all down.
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"Take one memory,
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explore it like a new land,"
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the visiting poet tells the class.
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"Don't leave anything out."
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Tyler sits in this high school workshop,
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dizzy with where to start.
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Memories wander in and out of his heart
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like vagrants searching for home.
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He bends to his desk,
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"The snow goes black
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when the moon turns its eyes away,
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all paper is yellow,
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all letters spell eviction note,
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Mama's lies are footsteps
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too many to count.
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Making excuses on black snow.
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'I paid the rent,
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this is your room forever, baby.
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But, she wouldn't even look at me."
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As he writes, his lips try on words
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then toss them out like bad tenants.
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He pushes his desk back,
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"Aunt Jocelyn's rice pudding was sweet,
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but that's not what I want to write.
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Have you ever been so cold
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your hair becomes an icicle?
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Your little sister's fear of the dark
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freezes on her lips
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like she's kissed the ice tray?
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How hungry have you been?"
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Abandon extra words.
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His pen becomes a machete,
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slashing ands, thens, becauses.
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The 11th grade boy makes sure
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Step 3's cuts weren't too deep.
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