The perks of Being a Wallflower- By Stpehan Chbosky

"once on a yellow piece of paper,
she wrote a poem
and she called it "chops"
because that was the name of her dog.
and that's what it was about
and her teacher gave her an A
and a gold star
and her mother hung it on the door
and read it to her aunts
that was the year father tracy
took all the kids to the zoo
and let them sing on the bus
that was the year her little sister was born
with tiny toenails and no hair
and her mother and father kissed a lot
" and the boy around the corner sent her a
valentine signed with a row of x's
and she had to ask her mother what the x's meant
and her father always tucked her in at night
and was always there to do it
once on a piece of white paper with blue lines
she wrote a poem called "autumn"
because that was the name of the season
and that's what it was all about
and her teacher gave her an A
and asked her to write more clearly
and her mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because of its new paint
and the kids told her
that father tracy smoked cigars
and left butts on the pews
and sometimes they would burn holes
that was the year her sister got glasses
with thick lenses and black frames
and the boy around the corner laughed
when she asked him to go see santa claus
and the kids told her why
her mother and father kissed a lot
and her father never tucked her in at night
and got mad
when she cried for him to do it
once on a piece of paper torn from her notebook
she wrote a poem
called "innocence; a question"
because that was the question about her boy
and that's what is was all about
and her professor gave him an A
and a strange steady look
and her mother never hung it on the kitchen door
becaue she never showed her
that was the year that father tracy died
and she forgot how the end
of apostle's creed went
and she caught her sister
making out on the back porch
and her mother and father never kissed
or even talked
and the guy around the corner
put on too much Ax
that made her cough when she kissed him
but she kissed him anyway
because that was the thing to do
and at three A.M. she tucked herself into bed
her father snoring soundly
that's why on the back of a brown paper bag
she tried another poem
and she called it "absolutely nothing"
becaue that's what it was really about
and she gave herself an A
and a slash on each damned wrist
and she hung it on that bathroom door
because she didn't think
she could reach the kitchen