My Teenage Life
by Myles Tyrer-VasellMy teenage life is a flip-flop.
I bounce around from activity to activity,
Underneath the supernatural and phantasmagoric foot of school. Getting almost nowhere; almost falling off when I try to move fast. With my teenage life, it is hard to play sports and at driver's ed. it is hard to drive with a flip flop. When I try to do homework, the floppiness is distracting. When I get angered my teenage life is hard to throw at the wall. (It doesn't make a very satisfying sound.) But somehow, I find a way to play sports, drive and do homework. Somehow.
But when it rains, I am rained on.
When it is winter, I am cold (along with my phantasmagoric foot).
When I try to climb trees, and just have fun, my flip-flop has no grip, I slip, and the gravities of responsibilities pull me back down to the ground where I am considered "down to earth."
Because my school foot is not protected, sometimes it gets bruised or scratched, and then I have to drop everything to get it on track again.
People expect a lot from my simple flip-flop.
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Last updated on Saturday, April 19, 2008.
