Before I was a Gazan - Naomi Shihab Nye

[Lawrence Robinson]

Before I was a Gazan
 
I was a boy
and my homework was missing
paper with numbers on it
stacked and lined,
I was looking for my piece of paper,
proud of this plus that, then multiplied, not remembering if I had left it
on the table after showing to my uncle 
or the shelf after combing my hair
but it was still somewhere
and I was going to find it and turn it in, 
make my teacher happy,
make her say my name to the whole class,
before everything got subtracted
in a minute
even my uncle
even my teacher
even the best math student and his baby sister
who couldn’t talk yet.
And now I would do anything
for a problem I could solve.
 
     - Naomi Shihab Nye
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