I’m tempted to use this as my “About” page.
This is something I wrote when I was eleven or twelve, for a sixth grade English assignment. I’ve posted it before, but since it relates to my previous post in a number of ways — accidents, middle school, and women’s lib — I figured I’d brush it off and post it again. Considering this is the kind of thing I was writing in middle school, it’s surprising that my old school friend was so stunned by my book’s voice.

Jamie
6-Y
English
Me, Myself and I
One dark, cold night while my mother just finished dinner of knockwurst and sourcraut and beer she felt me hitting inside her. She knew I was coming soon. At about 12:30 my mother went to the hospital where the most fantastic, curious, spectacular child was born at 1:20 am. I was chubby and full of hair on my head. I weighed in at about 7 pounds 8 ouces. After staying for a while at the hospital I went to my apartment in Summit where they just recently added onto.
When I was young, about 6 or less months old, my mother nicknamed me thud because I would always fall off of things such as bookcases, beds, etc. I was always moving and getting into things and messing things up.
By the age of three, I was drawing pictures on everything with anything I could get my hands on. In the middle of kindergarten I moved to where I live now. About a month later, I fell on my lip and I can still remember the blood that splattered all over the bathtub. I needed stitches and when they took them out it was messed up and now I have a big lip.
My first interest in becoming a surgeon came in fourth grade and now I have books and rat brains and kits. I have other hobbies too besides falling off things. They are dissecting, writing and making movies with my friend Jerry. By fifth grade we made seven films and wrote a bunch of humor magazines and dissected 2 bull frogs, one grasshopper, one crayfish, and four tree frogs. I would never kill an animal, especially a wild one, but the same for domestic. I am also a male chauvenist and am against women’s lib definitly!
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7 Comments
07 January 10 at 7:31pm
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bookcases?
08 January 10 at 1:10am
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my favourite ever (skimming this now only about to hit the hay) was the jamie is the best poem please repost that one after you spam email forward to that feminasty 500 times.
08 January 10 at 9:25am
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You mean this: The Person Who Is Always Great
08 January 10 at 1:16pm
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http://twitter.com/raymitheminx/status/7527422916
08 January 10 at 2:50pm
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you've been retweeted http://twitter.com/poetryc/status/7527937468
09 January 10 at 12:18am
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Oh man. "the most fantastic, curious, spectacular child"...!!! that's beautiful. "definitely" has been the single hardest word in my entire life to spell correctly. I'm glad it was tough for...12 year old you, phew! This is so good.
09 January 10 at 12:21am
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"I'm also creative as you all know Because you all always tell me so"...I need to start chanting that, constantly, in a snotty voice. Thank you.