sister not so mean. I wish I

had a ten speed bike like I wish

people would be all alike...

I wish my mother wouldn't

have said be a good friend

to Rita or I would have hit

her back and made her

turn black and blue and

made her think she was pink.

Rita was the subject of several abusive wish-poems because, in the true spirit of writing "anything," she expressed her desire for all of the boys in the class to jump in the lake. I didn't let anybody know about Rita, but ripples of rumor turned into waves of discontent: "I wish Rita with/her fat self shut her/garbage mouth and/turn into a fat white rat." Now I attempted to curb this bickering with a wish poem containing a color and a T.V. show. Most of these kids spend a lot of time watching television; some of them are allowed to stay up late because their parents just don't care. Here is the collaboration:

I wish I was Randy Jackson's wife.

I wish I was a young movie star with long black hair.

I wish I was Red Fix's daughter

I wish that Olive Oyle would stretch down the Grand Canyon.

I wish Bugs Bunny was a purple monkey.