<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569243" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poisoned Apples</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tenth grade teacher, a Mr. Suchandso<br>slashed a C minus across her very first poem</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ashamed to be qualified as less than mediocre<br>it was many years before she dared compose another</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and, indeed, may never have<br>(a loss the world might long regret) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but for an insistent voice within her that<br>refused to succumb to</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the unwitting cruelty of a witless pedagogue<br>who should have known better.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(Previously published in Spilled Ink, July 2000; Stroll of Poets Society, July 2000)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Laurence+Overmire">Laurence Overmire</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569243" data-title="Poisoned Apples de Laurence Overmire" data-description="Tenth grade teacher, a Mr. Suchandso slashed a C minus across her very first poem ashamed to be qualified as less than mediocre it was many years before she dared compose another and, indeed, may never have (a loss the world might long regret) ..."></div> </div> </div>

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