can YOU punctuate this true story

The date is May 26th 2002 31 of the top players in the provence of Ontario one man is determined to do his best more than anyone he goes in to the arena and moments later the first piece is moved this game is chess the man plays his best games but loses many luckily he wins almost as much he wins his big losses where againt the players that came 15th 14th 4th this man is actually a boy this boy just came 20th in Ontario his name is Austin Almadi but then who did you expect

Temagami

Temagami

Today is the day
The day I had been anticipating
The day I leave for Temagami

I had all already packed
my clothes already chosen

Long Hoursof looking towards the future
This leaves me with an idea
An idea of fun times ahead

I am soon up high, looking down at what seems as a Lego play set
I touch down and glide across the water
I stop
I get out and I’m greeted

The next morning I am ready for a great week
I had no idea the treacherous path that lay ahead
The first paddle is dipped into the water
A light stroke starts the journey

I think of what will happen this day
I think of light paddles
Small portages
The beautiful scenery around me
I felt great

I arrive at our first portage
Just over a kilometre of torture and pain
This is only because of my mind set
3 quarters through I put the canoe down
I am sad
Exhausted
I couldn’t go through a week of this

I was right I couldn’t
But with my friends
We could do it together
We needed to help each other and we could get through anything
The tears the pain the unknown
And we were meant to have a great time with it
We learned a great deal about ourselves and each other

Truth is when we arrived at Temagami
It was all about me
We left to go home and
We were leaving Temagawe


Austin

The Speech that has no Listners

The Speech that has no Listeners

Today I am born
Pieced together
From a wood pulp
Only to be stuck in a package with others
We are roughly tossed around
And then nothing

Many long hours worrying about what fate would befall us
Our voices inaudible over the roar of the world

We now have some how moved
We are at a place where we are taken out of our package
Now the real torture will occur

We are violently shoved into a huge white box
One by one we are sucked deeper into the punishment chamber
My turn

I am slowly rolled along through the box
Being pounded and bruised
But these bruises are special
They are eternal
They never fade

I am finally out but my pain is not over
Huge metal jaws with a bright orange handle close on my bottom right
That part of me falls right off
I keep losing parts until
I am a shape that I have never heard of or seen before

Now I am placed down on a large flat surface
I am branded
By a wood stick with a hard black material on the inside

Now my torturer flips me over
It slams me hard into the flat surface
My back gets covered in white sticky goo
Soothing some of my pains

This relaxation does not last long
I am slapped onto a huge red board
From here I witness others like me
Suffering
Suffering what I just went through

The board I am on is lifted up
Stuck on a wall

For an immensurable time I have been stuck here
Looking
Listening
I have many secrets
And much knowledge
No kind soul has any interest in stopping
There is nothing I wouldn’t do for a friend

Austin

Box of Imagination

Box of Imagination

This box
Holds the universe
It has unlimited intelligence
And you control it

This box sits in a room
It lets you do anything
Ride waves
Fly through the sky
Meet aliens
Defeat your enemies
Conquer the earth
Or maybe even the galaxy
You hold all this power at your fingertips
Will you use it for good purpose
Or for destruction
Will you stand alone
Or leading others
Everything is your choice

It calls out to you
It loves being in these different worlds
It will fill your head with great memories
Will you obey the call

Play as long as you want
Nothing can take away the magic of the box
Just remember you are your own person
Not an imagined character
You will always return to your world

Imagination can take you anywhere
Even that made by another’s mind



Austin

The Servants Freedom

The Servants Freedom

I open my eyes for the first time of my life
My vision casting a dim yellow glow wherever I look
I try to move
But my axles just spin uselessly

Suddenly the room is lit up
By large glass balls on the ceiling
Things with four axles come in
But these are weird
The axles bend and twist
One end on two of them is split and frayed into five pieces
Plus only two axles touch the ground pushing the thing foreword

They pick up four big circular silver coloured things
The circular things are stuck on to me
Now the strange moving things wrap a soft black coating around the edges
Of the circular thing
These things
I began to call them movement circles

All of a sudden I feel unprotected
Bare
As if on queue a yellow chassis slipped onto my back
The comfort of enclosure yet the love to be in wide open spaces

I drive up onto a big version of me but with a hood over the front
The big thing roars and takes off
Reaching speeds that I achieve only in my dreams
Soon the vehicle stops
I get off and look at my surroundings I see big trees
Long open fields

I now feel one of the weird things get onto my back
I growl in surprise
I bolt
Move at speeds that I never thought I could
Jetting through sharp turns

My rider grabs a silver spike sticking out of my horns
I instantly skid to a stop I can’t move
I roar in anger at my rider

It lets go of the spike and off I go
I quickly learned to compromise with this thing
It can take command as long as I can keep on moving

Hours later I pull up into a building
My rider pulls something out of me
I lose my ability to move
I get angry again
But now is when I realize I need rest for the days to come
I need to show my rider that I am right for him



Austin

Dominoes

Dominoes

Today one man is looking to become a champion
This man is 55 years old
The date is 1952
This man is about to shatter the world record
The amount of dominoes ever set up
And knocked down in one trail

After hours of careful setup
The task is done
Dominoes set in a row
The man preparing to set off this devastating task
He closes his eyes
Remembers the fallen and the survivors together

Today is November 11th 1952
This man is thinking of this date 1918
Thinking of the day the war ended
Of George Price killed two minutes before the war ended
The final loss of the war
He is thinking of Julian Byng
Commander of the Canadian’s
His is thinking of every single soldier that died in WWI
Allie or opponent

He taps the first domino
The chain reaction keeps on going until all
60661 dominoes fall
The same amount as the dead Canadians

The Dominoes create an image
A huge mixture of miniature flags
Of all the countries that participated in this war
Around it there are words which say

Plastic dominoes and human life
Completely different things with nothing in common
But on the battle field
You feel as if you are nothing more that another life to be discarded
For a war that should never have happened
Are we truly that shallow as to waste a meaningful life
Violence to preserve peace
An idea ethically weak




Austin