1. Grand Mal seizure- seizure that last for a long time and hurt (Shawn has a Grand Mal seizure about half a dozen times a day and when Shawn has them he said he can go any where, Shawn also likes his seizure)
2. artsy-fartsiest folks- people that they believe that they are artistic (After Shawn was put in the kitchen he said he could hear two hundred of Seattle's artsy-fartsiest folks)
   
3. fortnight- fourteen days (used during the second part of the poem)
   
4. Pulitzer prize- one of a group of annual prizes in journalism, literature, music, etc. (Shawn said how his dad won on Pulitzer prize)
5. autonomic uncontrollable systemic reflex- reflex that you have no control over (when Shawn smiled his doctors said it was an autonomic uncontrollable systemic reflex)