Max is working on his stuttering at the Robert F. Pierce Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic of the University of Minnesota-Duluth. He wrote this poem about stuttering as an assignment.

GETTING STUCK

by Max J. - AGE 10

Getting stuck is not the best.
Though sometimes it takes a rest.
No matter how hard you wish,
or try to break it with a dish,

it Practice does it all!
It may again grow tall,
but then it starts to fall.
It may seem to stink,
but when you practice

make

added with permission
November 12, 1997