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Olivia
      by Dallas Huth 

  I call my monkey-mind Olivia
After the first-grader I tutor every Tuesday
Olivia cannot sit still
Olivia fidgets and fiddles with her paper, her pencil, her hair
Olivia looks at b-i-g and says jump
Olivia cannot focus
Olivia says no when I ask her to sit down
Olivia sits when I threaten her with expulsion
Olivia is up again in seconds
Olivia tells stories that make me laugh
Olivia runs and skips and jumps in the corridor
When there is no monitor
Olivia will go into second grade in the fall
My Olivia will be held back once again

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