My Brother’s Lips Are Sealed
My brother said, “Give me that Chapstick.
My lips are as chapped as can be.”
He snatched up my glue stick and used it.
He still isn’t talking to me.
— Kenn Nesbitt
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Reading Level: Grade 3
Topics: Poems about Friends and Family
Poetic Techniques: Dialogue, Irony, Narrative Poems
Word Count: 36
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