Kids Who Die Poem

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The story that I liked the most was “Kids Who Die”. This poem is about the kids who died during tragic events. The poem was just saying that kids will die and the fact that this is a fact is messed up and that is what he is trying to portray. The idea of the poem was to inform people of what will happen and years later it came true. This poem is really interesting yet sad to know that something like that is eventually going to happen to our youth. This poem portrays the world that we now live in. In today’s day and age the youth are expected to live a normal lifespan butt with the cold hard truth in this poem you can see that for most kids that is not the case. Not only is that sad it is just not right, there is something we as a people

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