About Me

Hi, I'm Harper Lee Simmons. It's pronounced Har-peh, because my dad's from the south. He's a foreign service agent from the US; my mom's a professor from Morocco. I grew up dividing my time between Rabat, Casablanca, and the countryside, with occasional trips to France. (I speak Arabic, French, and, yes, English.) I was born in Morocco but spent my first year or two in the States to get some fancy medical treatments. Mom and I and my brother and sister usually hang out at home while Dad's away on business. I have a younger brother, Will, and a younger sister, Charlotte. Dad named us all after his "heroes of literature": Nelle Harper Lee, William Shakespeare, and Charlotte Bronte. Mom and us kids are Muslim and Dad's a Baptist. He met my mother on an assignment and hasn't been able to get his heart away from Morocco since. Now I'm in the States attending a boarding school. I got detained after a fifty-state whirlwind tour, probably because of my religion. Living at "home" has been difficult to adjust to, but I'm getting there. With some help from my wonderful teacher and new friends, my United States citizenship has become something tangible. Oh, and I'm a poet. Yeah, I might not be your typical American Girl... but I think that's something I can live with.

09 June 2006

I Want to Fly

better than yesterday
but worse than today
trapped inside this asylum
(calls itself an embassy)
no access to civilization
'cept for 1 call an 'our

only reason i'm writing:
miss begley was the one i called today
was going to post a general update
but she told me lanier had a poem on mockingbirds
and supposedly,
that makes me the shakespeare of birds
may i get my wings and fly.

(PS: I found a few poems I wrote earlier on the journey over... here, so I'll post them when I actually get to OWT! Oh, grr. I called MB yesterday and dictated something to have her type up, but I wasn't in a poem-writing mood. Thankfully she lost it and I was in that kind of mood today!)

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