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See if you can think of something horrible and somehow make it beautiful- in 50 words or less. Poetry Free Verse or Prose.
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YAngeL in Poetry & Free Verse

The Day I Ate My Words

He was ten.

Coach decided to make him receiver.

Me, furious: "He's blind in one eye, he'll never catch it, setting him up for failure!"

Coach, annoyed: "We'll see."

Gameday

Quarterback throws.....15 yards....

CAUGHT!!!!

FIRST DOWN!!!!!

••••••

So glad that coach ignored me.

Without my "protection"

His potential is infinite...