Test/Found Words (2 short poems)

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Test

Calculators clicking, clicking

Clock tick-tick-ticking

Pencils scratching paper

In a race against the clock

Memorized formulas, fractions

Decimals, equations, lines

All these pencils scratching paper

And I'm still scratching my head

My mind is blank

This

Is

A

Test.

A/N: This was written after a math test that I'm sure I failed

Found Words.

mentally submerged

life is a

breaking obsolete doubt

rescue me

sail me away

A/N: In class, we picked 15 words from a newspaper and cut them out, and arranged them into a found poem. I thought it was cool.

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