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=**This is Crystal's Poetry Page!**=

I hope you like my poems!

Fire and Ice by                               Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if I had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits by Martin Espada

No one asks where I am from, I must be			from the country of janitors, I have always mopped this floor. Honduras, you are a squatter’s camp outside the city of their understanding.

No one can speak my name. I host the fiesta of the bathroom, stirring the toilet like a punchbowl. The Spanish music of my name is lost when the guests complain about the toilet paper.

What they say must be true: I am smart, but I have a bad attitude.

No one knows that I quit tonight, maybe the mop will push on without me, sniffing along the floor like a crazy squid with stringy gray tentacles. They will call it Jorge.