Raffy Berina

Plymouth, Massachusetts

English Language and Literature Teacher

TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME. by Robert Herrick GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying : And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying. In general, I'm not crazy about short stories; I suppose I prefer to be drawn into the realm of the novel. However, there are some writers of shorts that I love--Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter and Jorge Borges, to name a few. I read poems even more seldom, mostly because I'm already accustomed to my favorites--Frost, Doolittle, Cummings and many more I can't think of, for some reason. "some people call me "ODD" but some loves me regardless of my imperfecions...." I AM AN ENGLISH MAJOR! em