See Me After Class by Roxanna Elden

This poem came from an assignment I gave my creative writing class, “Fill in the blanks of this sentence:
Life is too short to ______. Life is too long to _____. That’s the title. You write the poem.” It must have been during test-prep month, and what can I say? I got inspired…

Read the questions carefully, kids.
Circle all the keywords.
Fill in circles neatly.
Erase mistakes completely.
And don’t make any stray marks.

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