Dear Mr. McGuire,
I know this is late and I’m sorry.
On the following page, please find my Truth Poem.
The Truth About Twinkie Pie
is that making it
is kind of like making a Life.
Because it doesn’t matter
if what you put in it
is exactly what you figured and planned
as long as it’s what you hope and dream
so when everything comes together
you know you’re making something
so amazing
and delicious
and completely yours
that all you want to do
is hold it way up high
and shout out with all your might
“Look out, world! Sweet Stuff coming through!”
—and I’m not talkin’ about the Twinkie Pie.
P.S. Also attached is a report on the relationship between poetry and science. I hope you will consider this as extra credit in order to bring my grade back to an A+.
P.P.S. DiDi wants to have all the Stargazers over Saturday for dinner again, but you don’t have to call them. I’ll just text everyone. No big deal. See you then!
P.P.P.S. Oh, I meant to tell you, the week after the meteor shower (so cool!), I went and read that book you lent me on my namesake, Mr. You Know Who. Did you know that when he was first trying to figure out what he wanted to be, he heard about telescopes but didn’t know how to get one? I mean, it’s not like there were any 24-hour telescope stores around. So you know what he did? He figured out how to make his own. I think that just might be my favorite thing about him so far.
Sincerely,
Your student and fellow Stargazer,
Galileo Galilei Barnes
Take one sheet of 8½-by-11-inch paper. Try not to use the kind that rips out of notebooks and leaves all those weird little flappy things up the side. Though you could always trim them off.
Write your message.
Fold the paper in half the long way, keeping the message on the inside. Then fold that in half the long way again. You should have a long, skinny strip of paper.
Put the paper on a table in front of you up and down like the number 1.
This part is a little tricky:
Put your left hand on the top half of the 1.
Take the bottom with your right hand and fold it over to the right at an angle, so that the paper looks like a capital letter L—but with a triangle cut out of the left corner. Try to get both sides of the L exactly the same length. Smooth it down firmly.
Now take the bottom of the L and fold it under itself so it comes out the left side and you have a backward L with a little triangle folded into the corner. Smooth the edge down.
Take the top of the L and fold it behind itself so you have a backward, upside-down L with a triangle showing in the upper corner. Smooth the edge down.
Take the bottom and tuck it into the triangle pocket. Smooth it.
And take the left side and tuck it into the triangle pocket over that. Smooth all the corners down.
Flip it over and write the name of the person you are giving it to… or directions like Read Now!
Or Read Later.
Or you can always leave it blank. It’s up to you.
Have fun.
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