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Here are the poems:
16-fabricating
The Homework Machine
by Miranda Paul
Last month’s report card made Mother unhappy,
and flipped Father’s mood from sunny to snappy.
So here’s my new plan—it’s done calibrating—
The H-BOT 2000® is now fabricating
all of my homework. Hip, Hip, Hooray!
Watch as Miss Margins gives me an A…
vs.
8-forego
You Can Do It
by Michele Krueger
abandon their decision to believe that you can’t do it
forego their opinion that you should not make it through
eschew their conclusion that you just weren’t meant to
refute their suggestion that you haven’t got a clue
embrace your intention
your future is unlimited
your destiny, uncharted
