Young Writers Project is a creative, online community of teen writers and visual artists that started in Burlington in 2006. Each week, VTDigger publishes the writing and art of young Vermonters who post their work on youngwritersproject.org, a free, interactive website for youth, ages 13-19. To find out more, please go to youngwritersproject.org or contact Executive Director Susan Reid at sreid@youngwritersproject.org; (802) 324-9538.
Dear Canada
Abigail Balon, 14, Panton
Dear Canada,
You do not belong to us. You never have.
And I really, really hope you never will.
You are your own country, but I know I don’t have to tell you that.
You already know it.
On behalf of many, many Americans (ugh, do I really even want to be an American?),
We’re sorry this has happened.
This makes up for nothing that has been said, done, and proposed,
But we wish this had never happened.
