My friend thinks he is smart. He told me an onion is the only food that makes you cry, so I threw a coconut at his face.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown had two sons. One was named Mind Your Own Business & the other was named Trouble. One day the two boys decided to play hide and seek. Trouble hid while Mind Your Own Business counted to one hundred. Mind Your Own Business began looking for his brother behind garbage cans and bushes. Then he started looking in and under cars until a police man approached him and asked, “What are you doing?” “Playing a game,” the boy replied. “What is your name?” the officer questioned. “Mind Your Own Business.” Furious the policeman inquired, “Are you looking for trouble?!” The boy replied, “Why, yes.”

Teacher: “If I gave you 2 cats and another 2 cats and another 2, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Seven.”
Teacher: “No, listen carefully… If I gave you two cats, and another two cats and another two, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Seven.”
Teacher: “Let me put it to you differently. If I gave you two apples, and another two apples and another two, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Six.”
Teacher: “Good. Now if I gave you two cats, and another two cats and another two, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Seven!”
Teacher: “Johnny, where in the heck do you get seven from?!”
Johnny: “Because I’ve already got a freaking cat!”

“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.” –Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered

This poem is very contridicting because it’s talking about a sea animal on land wanting to fly. It doesn’t make sense because sea animals die without water and they can’t fly and probably don’t want to.

Hello?
Oh hi grandma!
Really!!?
I can’t believe that!
Ok, I’ll be there.
When did that happen?
Are you sure?
Ok bye

A picture is worth a thousand words means every picture has a story. Maybe you have a picture of you and a family member and someone thinks that’s all it is. But to you it could be the day day ever. Or maybe it was a picture to remember a relative that has past away. The term “a picture is worth a thousand words” has meaning. Maybe you drew a picture. In the picture there is a certain item that you have a connection to, maybe the item describes you metaphorically. That is the true meaning of “a picture is worth a thousand words”

Jason was working for the population police. When he informed the population police of the 3rd children, but when they come to arrest the 3rd children they arrest him instead.
The population police probably did this just in case he was a 3rd

Words have negative and positive effects. If you went and told someone you like their shoes that would be positive word power and it could have made their day. Words also have a negative effect, though. Instead of complimenting that persons shoes you could have called their shoes ugly. That could have ruined their day. In the article it states “Rejection hurts” Social exclusion is when someone bullies you and you feel unwanted. That is rejection. It shows that if someone say something mean to you, you would feel rejected, and rejection hurts.

Power sometimes is control. The president is in control of America therefor he has power. Power is defined as the ability to do something or act a certain way, it could also be the ability to influence something. A bully could influence the choice of his/her victim. There is also standard power like powering a house, electric power.

S. Morganstern isn’t real
The author probably created S. Morganstern as a fictional character for entertainment. Goldman could have created him for a fantasy like feel to the book