"Plane Near the Cloudy"

One of my 8th graders handed me his homework

and I nearly melted on the spot.

He wanted to write, "There is a plane near the cloud",

but instead wrote, "plane neer the culudy",

with a scribbled picture of an airplane and a cloud.

And my heart burst.

Today, we had some downtime in the last hour,

so I doodled and chatted with my students.

We talked about Pokemon Black, Ranma 1/2,

if I was living with buri-chan or not, and how sleeping makes you pretty.

The girls thought my werewolf drawing was "too scary",

so I crumpled it up.

They screamed and snatched it from my hands,

scolding me gently for "destroying art".

And then one smiling girl

gave me her drawing of America.

I want not go home, preeze.

{squee-ing girl via Elissa}