For Owen
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Author | Stephen King |
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Country | USA |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Poetry |
Released in | Skeleton Crew |
Publisher | Signet Books |
Media Type | Anthology |
Released | 1985 |
For Owen is a poem by Stephen King first published in the 1985 short story and poetry 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.