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can you identify the narrator before the end? created as discussion starter for youth workshop.

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People look inside me

For what they want

Problem is

They expect me to have ‘it’

Most times they don’t even know what ‘it’ is they want

 

Some people look, see something

Take it, don’t really want it

And toss it out

What a waste

 

Others see something

Know it belongs to someone else

But they grab it anyways

Thinking only of themselves*

 

Sometimes I just want to shout

Stop looking

You haven’t put anything inside

So don’t expect

To get anything out

 

Then I remember

I’m not a bank

So people who put nothing in

Can get something out

 

It’s actually quite draining

On my resources you see

So much electric usage

For a mid-size 'fridge like me

 

Reviews

[Kira Stegman]

Haha, that's awesome. I was thinking the whole time "wow, this is so deep...this poor person" and then it was a fridge. I love a good surprise ending! :)

[Bee]

hahaha that was a great poem...the last line was funny (= the whole thing was profound and the end was humorous I like the contrast (=

I don't know, I'm probably wrong lol...but isn't the abbreviation for refrigerator is fridge...but I'm probably wrong (=

xoxo
bee

[Paul Grimsley]

ok, well i am man enough to admit it took me two reads to work it out. i have no excuse -- i'm pretty awake. i enjoyed it.