Author: Chris Cocca

The Terse Realism of Second Grade

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In honor of this week’s weather, I offer this piece from second grade. Late ’87 or early ’88. Enjoy the terse realism of “The Snowy Day” and bonus dinosaur reports.

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My friend Nathan found this among his elementary school papers.  I love it.  Note the terse realism.

He also found our dinosaur reports.  Mine isn’t bad, but his is awesome.  This is the kind of thing he probably got in trouble for for not following the rules of the assignment, but I think he deserved extra credit.

Mine:

His:

Yeah, that is awesome.

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Wintry Mix: Natsume Sōseki, Neil Young, and My Eldest…

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I posted “Over the wintry” earlier today.

I’ve been playing “Winterlong” on guitar between outside snow day fun and shoveling.

Inspired by Natsume, I thought it would be fun to ask/make my eldest to write a haiku about today’s weather. We read The Trials of Apollo series together, and every chapter starts with a haiku, which is to say, the form is familiar. As is the cheek:

I like to eat snow.

I pelt my Dad with snowballs.

Don’t eat the yellow snow.

I mean, no lies detected.