title: 222 Bad Poems For Good Times: 222 fun things to read
author:  M H Brunner 
description: Writing this book was so much fun. After I learned basic formatting from publishing my first book, 'Spanish Angels,' I gathered together over 500 poems I had written while serving the poor and many other types of people in Guatemala and the United States. My goal was to help anyone who asked with the available resources. I did and nearly died while doing it. While learning, I wrote. When i missed my country, I wrote. When i nearly died or survived gun shots, I wrote. This book is filled with my short ways of explaining messed up situations, situations of love and profound understandings of simple wisdom and complicated perspectives fun to entertain. Occasionally I was strung up on love, so I wrote. Loneliness helped these writings take flight when others would have ruined the view. It was fun writing and formatting my hard work into something that could be shared.
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  **Laura Moriarty**
  
   **The Center of Everything**
  
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   **Contents**
  
   _One_
  
  RONALD REAGAN IS ON TELEVISION, giving a speech because he…
  
   _Two_
  
  WHEN I GET HOME FROM school the next day, my…
  
   _Three_
  
  WE ABANDON THE VOLKSWAGEN, LEAVE it right there on the…
  
   _Four_
  
  MR. MITCHELL IS GOING TO pick my mother up for work…
  
   _Five_
  
  I WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT day, when she isn’t so…
  
   _Six_
  
  WE KNOW SOMETHING IS WRONG when the Rowleys’ is so…
  
   _Seven_
  
  MY MOTHER KNOWS I DON’T like her anymore. She has…
  
   _Eight_
  
  IT’S JANUARY, AND LONG, SHARP icicles hang down from the…
  
   _Nine_
  
  PASTOR DAVE AND SHARON PICK me up every Sunday before…
  
   _Ten_
  
  I AM NO LONGER ALLOWED to go to the Church…
  
   _Eleven_
  
  IF I HAD GOTTEN ARRESTED with someone for setting a…
  
   _Twelve_
  
  IT’S SPRING NOW, AND TRAVIS and Deena are still in…
  
   _Thirteen_
  
  RONALD REAGAN IS IN A lot of trouble.
  
   _Fourteen_
  
  TRAVIS WON’T TELL ME EXACTLY what was said between him…
  
   _Fif