SEC: Plagiarized poems?

[Sandy Eichelberger <eichel@BUFFNET.NET>]

We have two suspect poems that I have tried to locate but to no avail. I've
searched online with Google and Alta Vista, searched Roth's Best Poetry,
checked an OLD print copy of Granger's and even looked through a number of
our anthologies but could not find either of these poems.

I will list the beginning and end of each and perhaps someone could help me
locate them - if they exist. They are unlikely submissions from the student
who supposedly wrote them, and the teacher has turned to me for help. If
anyone else could find these we would be most grateful.


High School Reunion

Those two by two and those just by themselves
Come in through the gymnasium doors.
Those who never made it, crawling on all fours....

And there are those who haven't grown up at all
Since the Ninth or Tenth grade
All dance to music and reminisce and drink a drink to absent friends.

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She Wanders Into the Kitchen

She's huddled over
And talks in sputters
She only sees you from the shoulders down.
Her frail frame winds up in doorways
Where it doesn't belong....

And you put your arms around her
For a simple hug, afraid she might snap in two
She reaches up and clutches hard
And the smile on her face is Unusual
But it is like it was Just What She Needed,

It almost makes you cry.

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TIA
Sandy


Sandy

Sandra Eichelberger
Library Media Specialist
West Seneca East Senior High School
West Seneca, NY

seichel@westseneca.wnyric.org (school)
eichel@buffnet.net (home)

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