Kooser's Column 128

In his American Life in Poetry column, former poet laureate Ted Kooser featured a poem by sixteen-year-old Devon Regina DeSalva, a Los Angeles, California, resident. He explains that the teen wrote the poem in anger with her mother, but her mother loved the poem.

The poem is nothing exceptional, but it adds variety to the poetry palate. Titled "Snip Your Hair," the poem does not make it clear who the speaker is. Is it mother to daughter or daughter to mother? Probably the former, but nowadays many teens are blessed with their own credit cards.

Here are the first four lines:

1. I'll snip your hair
2. Cut it all off until you look like a man
3. I will replace your weight loss bars with bars to make you gain
4. I will cut your credit cards in half

To read the rest of this verse, please visit Kooser's column 128 at American Life in Poetry.

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