Senior Shaun Canas is a nonverbal autistic poet. He recently entered the Teen Poetry Slam Contest and won second place. Azure Merrill recorded the poem and played it while Canas was on stage.
Q: What inspired you to start writing poems?
A: When I first learned to type at age 12, my writing had a poetic quality to it. My older sisters called it fake deep, but honestly, that's really the way...
Peace
What is the meaning of peace
And can it exist
in this world
I guess peace is a foreign concept
The nature of humans
Is hate
Like all the people I remember
He tries...
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