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Project OWL: Options in Writing & Learning
Disability Services Writing Center Project

 

A project jointly developed and sponsored by ODS and the Barnard Writing Center


 

your making a lyar out of me
telling me i don't put enough effort in
i'm telling you i put effort in
but next time i won't
and i didn't
because it doesn't help any way

your telling me i understand
i'm telling you i don't
you can't see whats going on
in my head
i don't see the difference
all the words
look
sound
feel
the same

your making me feel stupid
explaining things YOU
THINK i don't understand
just because i
can't do it
but the fact that
i can't do it
just means
i can't do it
not that i don't know how

your making a lyer out of me
your telling me I’m careless
so i say i'm careless
and you leave me alone
but i care more
than most people and i
looked it over twice
HONEST
next time i won't bother

i can see the world your way
with spell check
grammer check
extra time
a calculator
a note taker
i can make my world look like yours
but you
can't see the world my way

so don't try and make a liar out of me
o.k.?

-- Ruth Magder
BC '91