Tino’s 8 Wishes

I would save the kids with cancer because they want to be happy
and other kids don’t have it. My second wish would be that no one
would hit me or boss me around at school. My third wish is that I
could buy my mom a car and a big house. My next wish is that
everybody will be nice to me. My fifth wish would be to be a president
to make the state better and smarter. My sixth wish will be that nobody
will say cuss words. My seventh wish will be that schools will get more
technology and make the kids smarter. My last wish is that on the 4th of July
everyone would pop firecrackers and dance in the windows.
I want everyone to be happy and not demean
and for gas prices to go low.

– Tino Guadamuz, 10

From the WritersCorps book “Race Car, Yellow Star” at Mercy Services
Poem of the Month: December 2006