Girls In the 4th Grade
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Girls in the 4th Grade
David J Walker
I remember being
Distracted in my 4th-grade class
By her perfectness
But then,
who really notices girls
In the 4th grade when
we were
Choosing up sides for a Kickball game
During recess
But
She was wearing a robin egg blue dress
And an embroidered white blouse
Anklet white socks turned down
Around her black & white
Saddle shoes
Her blonde hair was curled out
On the ends like those ads for perfect
Hair in ladies magazines
And
I wasn’t really showing off by kicking
The big red rubber ball all the way back
To the school wall at the end of the
Softball field
As I rounded the bases to home plate and
Too late looked up
She had already gone in
But then
Who really cares about Girls
In the 4th grade
Anyway
Copyright © David Walker | Year Posted 2021
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