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Adolescent Literacy
VUE Number 3, Spring 2004
An interview with Glynda and Asia Washington  Audio Clip 1
Where did the poem idea come from?
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TEXT VERSION:
Glynda: Do you remember where you got the idea for doing that story?
Asia: Well, let's see. Actually, the title comes from a collage that I did in art class a few months before, and it's in there, the first image that you see is the collage. I took a art class a few months before I did this, at my school, and we had to do a collage that had to, the theme had to be a social issue, and this was right after the, 9/11, it was a while after, not 9/11, but the war, the war, the war had just ended, so I wanted to capture 9/11. That's my background of the collage, and I put pictures onto the collage, it had candles of people mourning the people who died in 9/11, and the it had one of the towers blowing up, and I just had a gun, there was one guy, he was a prisoner, he had a gun to his head, it was basically talking about violence, and just, it had a lot of things to it, like violence, and drugs, and rape, and depression, and just a lot of things to it, and it had to do a lot of stuff that it goes around the world. Today we're seeing, it touched a lot of people.
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