% A Waterways Project Publication Richard Spiegel Barbara Fisher codirectors Thomas Perry administrative assistant James Patton teacher Bedford Stuyvesant Outreach Coran James, director Frank Murray, principal ia. Stephen E. Phillips, Superintendent, Alternative High Schools & Programs © 1996 Ten Penny Players with funding support from the NY State Council on the ArtsSISTER LOVE J am a twin with a beautiful kin Rhasheah is her name and she sits in the den I see her with a blue pen she writes I am her one and only best friendFOUR IMPORTANT WORDS hope, faith, trust honesty these are the things you think about without these words you really wouldn't be the type for me you may be sweet, cute treat me like a beauty queen but you have to have hope faith, trust, and honesty to be with meDIFFERENT KINDS OF PEOPLE people are different and the same in many ways some are smarter some are smaller and some bigger people cry, lie, and can't help it I'm a person with different styles and difficult ways it would be hard to judge me by anyone elseIT'S KIND OF DIFFICULT I don't know how to write poems I'm not good with poetry I can dance write stories, and cheer but poetry is not my thing it really doesn't interest me in my mind I would try but it doesn't sound right poetry is my bad sideADMIRE there are lots of people to admire there's my Aunt Kiya and my brother, but he's a liar my sister who wanted a job and got hired there's also my father who's a stock buyer there're lots of people I admireSCHOOL school is my first move it can be cool and sometimes rude you can't dress in the nude you can't get boo-dCOLD WEATHER it's a cold day the snow is falling everyone wears hats and caps you barely see the streets some cares are buried it's a beautiful day outside I live on a street with plenty of traffic I hear the car horns the sirens and ambulances sometimes I blank them out of my mind sometimes they stay there just the way life goes byBEAUTY love is beauty love is sometimes funny love is what makes this world turn without love it's a lot to learnNIKES I have five pairs of Nikes I can clean just like my cousin Mike we both love our NikesIn Search of a Song Volume 226 oY ep pL ARITA AOL OF a waterways project publication