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Charlie Gordon's “I am” Poem I am a un-smart person wanting to be smart! I wonder if I ever will be smart... I hear the voices of peeple mocking me. I see the world thru a key hole, but I want more. I pretend... I dont pretend anything. Its lying. I cry when I loose hope in getting smart. I hope that I will be choosen for the operashun. I need someone to understand me and treet me like everyone else. I wish I was smart... wait, did I say that already? ---- I am a guy named Charlie Gordon I am a genius who has once known what it was like to be mentally disabled. I wonder why people still exclude me from things even after

“Flowers for Algernon” is a science fiction novella written by Daniel Keyes.  The story is about a thirty-seven year old, mentally challenged man, named Charlie Gordon, who is picked for an operation.  The scientists increased his intelligence artificially, just like they had with a mouse named Algernon, but later, after Charlie's IQ had risen to over two hundred, Algernon falls unexpectedly ill and returns to his original state before the operation, then he dies.  So Charlie dedicates his last few days to researching on what had gone wrong and if and when he will go through the same thing, and of course, Charlie finds that he will