The secret life of the cat that lives under my house
The old gray naked cat that often barks a lot under my
house every time me or my mom make any sudden move. Loves
his dog food. He often wake up in the middle night leaving
my mom room then give me the look like I’m weird for
staring at him as he walks away on 2 feet smoking a cigarette.
The things the old cat eats often smell like peanut butter
and mustards.
Zion Jackson
Dear Imagination
Dear Imagination,
Make me a little teddy bear that
is soft
Make me a little sound of Rice Krispie
Make me a rainbow after it rains that brighten the day
Make me a pink blanket that is wrapped
around a warm body.
No imagination make me a tall
woman who isn’t scared
Make me a little kitten who purrs when
they’re scared
Make me a moving bike that
explore different encounters
Imagination make me a little
journal that people can vent to
Make me a little baby who can
be held in love.
Kushia Smith
Ghazal: Maybe Life is a Game
Skipped Breakfast. Might skip lunch
Balancing meal like hunger is a game
you stumble in heels on your way to a dance
others betting on how you would fall you are the game
In the last quarter of your precious study time
Because of the test the following day—Oh it’s a game
you wake up every morning turn on your light
and laugh Johnterrique understands his life is a game
Johnterrique Evans
My Pops
My pops is big and chunky with
lots of muscles
Dang he’s Big! “Haha I told you”
“That’s my home town” he always says
haha when he watches football
sitting on a chair talking about
“it don’t take me long to get
PO”
calling me catfish
he telling me “Marcus what’s your
20”
He so funny
He is always saying I got a fat
head
My Pops is just my pops
With his taste buds of eating
chicken,
Pops is so amazing.
Marcus Hughes Jr.
Letter to smiling
Your lips stretch out as it begins to form
It feels like they might split the bigger it is
Your teeth become visible for all to see
Together after a while your face begins to hurt
You look and feel happy with a grin on your face
The size may vary
The appearance is similar
Muscles begin to hurt
Makiya Thomas
Robo Nicki Minaj
not everyone has to look at you just because
you have a big butt and pretty dimples
you hate people that breathe the same
airs as you don’t look like you, nor have
more money than you
But you’re perfect with your beautiful dimples
and amazing values and wrinkles forming
on top of your forehead like a wrinkled up Dorito
The hate you have for avocado and broke
dudes is the same type of hate you should
have for booty implants and make up period!
not everyone can screw thereselves
to a machine and build the kind of body
they want, IT COST QUEEN!
Destiny Morant
KIPP: Delta Collegiate High School
Helena, AR
Dates of Visit: November 14-15, 2018
Faculty Sponsor: Vivian Sisk
Grade Levels: 9, 11, 12
Appx. Number Students Served: 22
Visiting Writers: Bailey Hutchinson, Rachel Thomas