If I Knew by Natalie Lobel If I knew what my topic would be for the poem I am writing, it would be a flowing, rhyming, piece of art that would get published in a magazine with other literary arts. The people who read it would love it, and it would be on the first page. It would receive great reviews, and become rich. I would have a notebook full of ideas, each one more brilliant than the next. I wouldn’t have to go to college because I would have a career at twelve.
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I would travel the world with my notebook and pen, coming up with ideas that would make me millions of dollars each time a person reads it. People would ask me how I became such a famous poet, and I would say my fifth and sixth grade English teacher. All of this could happen, if I just knew what my topic would be.