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   Ode to My Feet

   My feet are silver bullets
   bursting through the sky.
   I can go with them
   everywhere.
   They are as fast
   as lightning shooting
   over the stars,
   drifting around the planet
   like a rocket.
   Without my feet
   I would be nothing
   in the middle of nowhere.
   My feet are a G.P.S.
   so I can find my way home.

   Joshua Barad
   4th Grade
   Marquez Charter School
   Pacific Palisades
   Michelle Bitting, Poet Teacher


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