I wish I hadn't said it,

 

I wish I never breathed.

 

That question was so stupid,

 

I could crawl up my sleeve.

 

 

 

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Everyone was looking.

 

I thought I saw a smirk.

 

The whole class saw me blushing

 

and knows that I'm a jerk

 

 

 

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I'm going to sew my mouth shut,

 

or jump, which way's the ledge?

 

Embarrassment like that is worse,

 

by far, than death

 

 

 

By Alexandra Sue:  1995

 

 

Update: Although I did not win an award for this one I did have it published along with several others in a feature called Young Poets of American along with the American Poets Society in 1996

 

 

I wish I hadn't said it!