2009 MONTGOMERY COUNTY
YOUTH POETRY CONTEST

4-6 GRADE WINNER

Lies I've Told
By Sam Ritz

Johnnie Walker is a sixteenth century theologian.

The corner in Amsterdam is on the right, not on the left.

Coffee turns the color of Concord Grapes when mixed with the elixir of life.

The Chinese did discover baseball caps.

God is currently the guise of a street pigeon. In May he will return under the guise of a Number Two pencil given at the Empire State Building gift shop.

I currently teach at Walcey Prep under the guise of Holden Caulfield Jr.

I read And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.

Donald Rumsfeld is running for office in 2012.

Cellophane is the material used to make pen nibs.

At five thirty in the morn, I place my silken balloon scarf and gloves, my wooden hat and coat, and my chest high boots to explore the north.