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"For Owen" is a poem by Stephen King first published in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew . The thirty-four line free verse poem consists of eleven unrhymed, unmetered verse paragraphs. The poem concerns King walking his son Owen to school, as the boy describes a fantastical school attended by anthropomorphized fruit. ^[1]

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See also

• Stephen King short fiction bibliography

References

External links

• "For Owen" at StephenKing.com
• "For Owen" title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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