Poetry: Not Me

Part I of Essay
Once in time there was a boy named Johnny. Johnny was skinny and clumsy and tall. His family was poor, though they had money His dad owned a business, always on call. He lived in a small town in the Northwest. He was told that he was disadvantaged. H ....

Part II of Essay
.... time in the world. "Why not study?" said his mom, cooking the stew. He thought of that during supper and hurled. His mother soon tired of the grades he brought home. She made him study each day after school. He was grounded from TV, and from the phone. He was shut in his room and force-fed gruel. His grades slowly improved, thanks to his mom. Although he didn't thank her at the time. He averaged all B's by the time of the Prom. He imagined that God had dropped hi ....