None of these instances are dramatized, i am...
i started out as the picked on little child...

I have a new desk sitting in my room
i lugged it eight blocks, alone in the gloom...

So will die a hero who helped shake the earth
a natural born hero, straight from his birth...

Leaves falling, winter comes fast
too bad the summer didn't last...

A high bridge, dusk settles onto the city's crowns
two lovers, both of them standing wearing frowns...

On the first date i thought it went well
it ended as the ringing of a church bell...

4th of July, our nation's birthday date
but now a sale of fireworks bate...

Oh river, where do you lead me?
what do you wish me to see...

The confederate fores massed at Gettysburg's...
two days the rebus were pushed back, the forests...

The capital, a dark foreboding cityscape
no love, just a coldness to illuminate...

Nowadays many people just quit
but i have a lesson, so please sit...

Long may i recite poetry in your majestic halls
until my hand fails me or when death calls...