5 Things They Never Told Us

• By: Daniel O'Brien
• March 25th, 2011
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Given the opportunity, there are probably a lot of tiny, superficial things you say to your fourteen-year-old self, (Get a haircut; Stop being a smartass; Maybe try not masturbating for, like, a night, and see what that does to the amount of free time you have). Small things you wish you'd known, because they would've made middle school, high school and whatever comes after slightly easier.

There are also much bigger things, things about life and growing up that someone damn sure should've told you about.

Mona Lisa

This poem is inspired by the movie Mona Lisa Smile.

1957

This poem is one I wrote for my Oma & Opa's 50th Anniversary. At their party, my sister read it out loud after we got it framed and printed on nice paper. It now hangs in my Oma & Opa's dining room. I don't write poems for any other purpose than getting things out. This is the poem I'm most proud of.

Troops

This poem was written as a tribute to all the men and women who give their lives to serve our country.