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Martha Meltzer <br />49?0 Blackbird Way <br />Pleasanton, Ca 9566 <br />m.meltzer!c?~comcast.net <br />Explaining the Writing Process to Fifth Graders <br />The mind is a hotel <br />t-IoJo Hilton or Huckelberry Inn <br />establishments tilled with rooms housing ideas and memories <br />Some for math facts others for soccer strategies <br />Another room has answers to the quiz on A Gt'r•i~rkle in Tine <br />At the end of the hall a suite for U.S. states and their capitals <br />Poets have poetry° rooms in their hotel <br />They check in sigh and unpack. their bags <br />They peck into drawers unwrap guest soaps <br />jump on the bed and leave wet towels on the bathroom floor <br />More often then not they call room service and order hot fudge sundaes <br />E3ut mostly they sit in the uncomfortable armchair by the window <br />and watch <br />and listen <br />and feel <br />as words on vacation stroll into view <br />~~~?006 <br />