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The ZiggerZagger<br />
Beware the ZiggerZagger<br />
He’ll eat you in one piece<br />
He’ll claw out both your eyes<br />
It happened to my niece<br />
He doesn’t make friends<br />
So all of you watch out<br />
For he has only me<br />
I am his only, no doubt<br />
We laugh, we giggle, and we joke,<br />
We have fun every day<br />
The only time we have to stop<br />
Is when someone else has come our way<br />
Mihikaa Naik<br />
He has bad breath and an ugly face<br />
And all the children let him know<br />
So they make mean jokes<br />
And on their way they go<br />
Now he hates them all<br />
And he has only me<br />
I like him for who he is<br />
And for who he’ll always be<br />
No one seems to look beyond<br />
What their eyes will see<br />
And they will never realize<br />
How nice the ZiggerZagger can be.<br />
15<br />
The Pink Elephant<br />
At the foot of my bed it gawks at me, and I<br />
gawk back. Given to me by my beloved auntie<br />
when I was only two, I cherish C.J., my pink<br />
elephant. Its smooth, fluffy pink exterior is soft<br />
and elegant, despite its blue eyes conjoined at<br />
the middle, and its green feet with yellow toe-<br />
nails. I confide in C.J., and he listens with open<br />
ears. We indulge in conversations of all types,<br />
even though he himself is quite inaudible.<br />
I still love and admire him, because he is the<br />
memory of my auntie. And even though she is<br />
no longer living, I will keep C.J. and pass him<br />
down from generation to generation so my kids,<br />
and their kids will be obliged to share the same<br />
compassion, love, and respect for him, as I , too,<br />
always will.<br />
Dana DiGiacinto<br />
Clarence Williams
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