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.

18 May 2006

hallelujah

here
in california
the sun is shining
as bright as even
casablanca
rabat
"here's looking at you, kid."
even if the sun was not shining
and rain was falling
and thunder drumming
i would be happy
as it is the weather of adventure
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15 May 2006

Aha! Thoughts

american history 101
ooooooooooh
shooby-doop shooby-wop
shooby-dah-lah
i'm in america!
there's history and culture like never before
so much more i have in store!
shooby-dooop shooby-wop
shooby-dah-lah
i'm in america!

what if i really was...?
sometimes i wish i'm really her
that famous author
that h a r p e r l e e
who
hid away
and contemplated
life
however
i'm much more partial
to friendship
in a different way than
my namesake
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