and so the song goes
and so Kodachrome has gone in my lifetime.
My public education began here behind those
double doors in Sopchoppy, Florida
I spent my first and second grade years there.
I fell in love with my second grade teacher,
miss Townsend.
and so my loves have gone on unceasing,
leaving them sitting in their wooden desks
as I moved on.
the 3rd and 4th grade years were spent
in Monticello
I liked, did not love Debra, got caught
sending her a note in class by Mrs Floyd.
5th and 6th grades were spent in
Wilmore, Kentucky.
April was the love who did
receive my notes and did
respond with multiple hearts and yes,
yes,yes,yes's.
I left her in a girl scout suit on the corner.
7th through graduation
came at Williston High.
I will not mention the many girls,
as I am still too close to them, except April and Rebecca who
have gone on.
And so Saturday, 6PM at the Woman's Club we
will meet for our 40th reunion.
I will go and put my best foot forward, if there is one.
I look over these 40 years and in many ways, I have
not even begun, or am in no better shape than the day
I graduated.
I am just as poor, I have yet to find a career that really suits me,
I am still doing photography, the Facebook and Blogs being my yearbooks, I am still biking and canoeing and running just as I did in High School.
But I hide all the failure and tell how grand things are.
I am sure, excepting the few who came into or from money, we are all struggling
in our own ways.
Some of us just hide it better than others.
Amen!
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