Smell Association - The Gym Floor

                The way the gym floor smells when it’s re-polished for a new season, all the different people in the gym getting ready for tip-off, it just takes me back to my first game and how surreal it felt just knowing that we were about to get live just like the players in the NBA, NCAA basically any basketball teams on TV, I thought our introductions were going to be the same and that there were going to be cameras and loud fans, I got the loud fans/friends and I was just getting hype with my teammates . Listening to roscoe dash as we warm up, just like the pros. God I never wanted it to end, then came tip off we got the ball and boom 8 seconds later we were on the board cause I drove the lane and burned my defender, and hearing my name and number get called out and hearing that I scored first was the greatest feeling ever. That’s why I love the gym floor smell.

Fear Of A Room - My Bedroom

                My room was the scariest thing to me when I was younger, walking into it I wanted someone to go in first and turn on my lamp. When I got in I would creep in slowly. Look around, and dive onto my bed, because I always thought a long hand would grab my foot if I just walk in and get on it. And right when I would land I would punch the bed because I thought the girl from the exorcist was there. And then when I would wake up in the middle of the night I swear I would always see the most realistic witch come and scrape her broom on my window. I would run to the restroom and come back in with the plunger and throw it at my window. As gross as it was I would leave the plunger by my bed so if I heard a noise I would throw it towards the noise. I grew out of this when my older brother moved in with me.

Humpty Dumpty - Hard times in Eggxico

One day in Eggxico, Humpty Dumpty was trying to get his family across the border to them in to America. He was waiting in a cave with his wife and kids. They waited until nightfall. The border patrol had made their nightly round. And barely missed them, so they started running for the fences. They heard an alarm go off. And he pushed his kids ahead. They were floating in the river to the other side and Humpty saw the border patrols egg cars pull up. And Humpty and his family start climbing the fence, and the kids and took forever to make it to the top, so when humpty made it to the top the border patrol agents were already climbing. So he told his wife and the oldest son to take care of the rest of the family and then….. he jumped down the fence and on the way down pulled all the border patrol agents down with him, the fence was so high that when they hit the floor they all cracked open and died. And his family lived happily ever after, and humpty got washed away by the rain, Poor Huevo!

Animal - BOOM

An hour before the game.

I’m plugged in.

Bumping Drake and Wayne.

It gets me ready for the pain.

To me football isn’t just a game.

One day I want to play for the fame.

Coach always tells me, it’s my game.

Leading the defense.

Isn’t that easy.

Sometimes I call audibles.

Sometimes I call the wrong thing.

I run in to try and make a play.

And the ball goes the other way.

When that happens, I feel like a turtle.

The ball is far away, and when coach asks,

“What happened?” I won’t know what to say.

I shut down; he says I need to focus.

We are 2-0, but the score in this game.

Is 23 to 16. If my defense gets a stop.

Our offense will get hype, score and BOOM 3-0.

It’s the next set of downs.

And were back on D.

I’m on the field I call sarge and warge.

Me and Sammy are going to blitz because there in a passing set.

The QB from Del Valle is in shotgun.

He starts his cadence.

And now I see jet motion.

I call of warge and now its just me.

I’m going in alone and I know

My team was way behind me.

The play starts and im running full speed ahead, I feel heavier.

My Arms feel stronger my legs feel more powerful, I feel like a bear.

I’m about to hit the quarterback.

Boom there’s a loud pop.

The Crowd goes wild as he fumbles

The ball and I pick it up and start,

Running for the end zone.

This time I hear the air gyrating in my helmet.

I feel my body get lighter.

I feel like I’m cutting through the air.

I score, we win.

And I feel like me.

Limerick - Black Eye Guy

There was a dude with a black eye.

He seemed like a pretty nice guy.

I don’t know why some would hit him in the eye.

That poor poor guy.

With that black black eye.

Haiku - Ballin'

I love basketball,

The rubber ball and all,

It’s my favorite kind of ball.

I love the hoop,

Hearing the net go scoop,

Ah, how I love to hear the scoop.

The window I can feel

The robot I want to steal

The ladder does not appeal.

Both of us with a gun

Were on the run

She actually has two guns.

Beauty deserves a heart,

Real fame deserves a brain

After that there’s no shame.

Industrial is down under

Rural is up high

Industrial pollution will turn the world upside down.

Poem 1 - My Life

There was a time in my life.

When one sport wouldn’t suffice

My mother wanted me to choose.

But I promised I wouldn’t lose.

She told me that one day,

My talents would fade away.

But I know that day is far away.

The very next morning

She said I needed to choose.

And now I think I just might lose.

Basketball, my passion

And Football, has been my sport

Since way back when,

But every now and then

You got to stick to your best sport.

Myth - Elder Tree

In the beginning there was a big tree, and the world was baron wasteland around that one tree, three twigs fell and other than a new tree following, man came up from the ground and told the tree what to make so he could survive. The tree provided fruit, water and animals of all kind and vegetables the tree also taught him how to make fire. So man went on with no sun or moon or women. In about a year there were new trees, and the man asked the elder tree if he can make him a companion and something to tell him when to wake up and when to go back to sleep. So the next day he was woke by rays from the sun, and a figure unlike the animals. The tree named the figure, women; the man and the women got along just fine. When moonlight came and they wanted to stay up longer they wanted to build a fire. So they went on there ways to collect wood and she took a branch from the elder tree while he was asleep. They used it in the fire and when morning came, the elder tree was ash, and then came the ruling of man.

Sentence Completion - The Chargers

The first time I shoplifted, I was walking through the aisles at wal-mart and I saw a poster of my favorite football team, The Chargers. It was just there for the taking, well so I thought. So like any other 8 year old, I grabbed the big thing and folded it and shoved it in my pocket, and it wasn’t showing at all, I found my mom and she was still getting groceries and we were walking to the front to checkout. She asked me what was in my pocket as we approached the door, and I told her the truth but for some odd reason she thought that I had already paid for it. So when we reached the front doors the alarm went off and the security guard’s checked the receipt and the basket, and everything checked out to be fine so we walk through the doors again and boom, the alarm went off again. So they went through every bag we had and they still found nothing different from the receipt, so they were about to let us go and then some lady was like “wait mijo.” “Do you have something in your pockets?” and then my mom ripped the poster from my pocket and straight up slapped me! She was so mad when we got home. I couldn’t play video games or watch T.V. as a matter of fact I couldn’t even come out of my room! And she didn’t take me back to wal-mart until I was twelve.

Writing Through Listening - White & Red

He woke up later than usual; his wife didn’t wake him up because it was a Saturday morning. The sun was shining but looked dim in the all white interior of the house. His eyesight was partially blurry; it was going to be a good day. As he started walking down the stairs, he heard his wife’s voice.

            He saw her in the kitchen doorway, and she was talking but now her words were blurred as if she was whispering. It sounded like she was telling someone to leave, so then he decided to further investigate so he went out the very quietly.

            Then he creped up to the window and saw his best friend. Then what he saw next set him into a rage. His wife and friend started kissing! So he tore through the door next to the windows, and started yelling, there was shoving and then the best friend decked him in the face and the husband got knocked to the floor. The husband then reached into a drawer and grabbed a gun. BANG! He shot his wife.