Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide To Planet Girl - Plot & Excerpts
“Katie!” I said, apparently at a volume loud enough for many more people other than Katie to hear. She looked at me. She was clearly getting fed up, but she was too nice a person to come out and say it. So instead she just said, “Yes?” “I wrote you a poem,” I announced. “Sometimes it’s hard for me to say what I mean, so I wrote it down.” This actually got her to smile at me, for the first time in what seemed like a year. “You wrote me a poem?” “Yup! I’ve been reading a lot of poetry lately and I thought I’d give it a try. Can I read it to you?” A quick look of distrust crossed her face—probably because of the reading comment—but she decided to give me the benefit of the doubt. “Sure, I’d like that.” I took a deep breath, got out my notebook, and started reading. “I would compare you to a summer’s day Although, now that I think about it, you’re even more temperate, I’d say! And May, darling, is when the rough winds blew And summer is almost as hot as you—”
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