Summer Jacobson's Poetry

We are very proud of Summer. She's smart and beautiful. It always warms our hearts to see her perform (singing/guitar), or to listen to one of her poems. We like to hear her political and social thoughts, too. She's more in touch with the important things in life at 16 years-old than I was at 26 years-old.

She brought home the "Showcase" catalog yesterday. It features work from high school students all over Europe. This was just published in the last few weeks, but it was from work submitted last year (when she was a sophomore). They selected one of her poems for it. Can you guess who the poem is about?

We love you Summer! You make us very, very proud! And, yes, we rocked the vote this time!

Summer Jacobson's poem

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[summerjoy]

Thank you Daddy! :] Love you, too! ^^

I also want to say that the people who did the magazine messed up my poem a little bit. XD Tiny mistakes that only I would notice... But here's the original:

Rock the Vote.
His political lips iced
to keep secrets from the public.
Although they are concealed
as best they can be,
some are bound to escape.
Thus, they cease to be secrets
and morph into super-lies.
He tries to avoid this,
for, he is not the best liar;
he usually gets other men
to do it for him.
Generally, he hides
from the public;
he quite enjoys a good vacation.
His least favorite thing to do is
stand behind that dreaded podium
and be forced to explain why
he didn’t do something good,
but something twice as bad
in half the time.

(It's still cool to get "published" though... Haha.)