Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

Good News Maybe

My principal is one
Of the best four principals
I have ever met, told me she 
Saw her budget, and the counselor
For her school (our school if you include me)
Gets a counselor for 4 days next year, not 5.

Which means, if I am the counselor, I would
Have to be in another school one day a week
Next year. Ugh! Some of the schools are pretty
Awful.  I’m such a powder puff, I’d be running out
With crying eyes by 8:15 in some of these schools,
And they don’t even start until 9.

My Principal (M.P. for short) 
M.P. spoke with the second only to the TOP
The Big Top- the Superintendent himself,
And she said that they need me here
Next year, and it has to be 5 days
A week, because I mean this much
To her and our school.

I am so grateful! And optimistic
because the counselors often
do not know what school
They get until Saturday night at 9
The week before school starts.

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Kim Rodrigues April 26, 2018 at 3:46 PM Wow! Life can be so hard! Sounds like a great school! Caren Krutsinger April 26, 2018 at 5:08 PM It is one of my three favorite schools, as I have been to five.

Lunita Blanca April 26, 2018 at 1:50 PM Good for you Caren. You must be a great counselor to have people believe in your worth. It doesn't get better than that. Caren Krutsinger April 26, 2018 at 5:08 PM Thank you; I was so overwhelmed with love, I forced the principal to get out of her giant wonderful cushy principal chair and let me give her a hug. I threw in an "I love you" too, because I do.