If Allowed One Re Do
If I as allowed to go back in time to do one re-do,
Limited to one change in my past.
Which one would I choose?
There are so many mistakes I would like to correct.
Wait! Here is the one that started me on my life of crime.
The day I yelled NO in a mean, loud way to my teacher.
And she made me sit in the alcove for an hour wearing a dunce cap
So all the kids could make fun of me.
1958. Chariton, Iowa, Columbus School.
I would go back and bomb that school
So no one would laugh at me.
No. wait. Maybe I would go back and just try my damnest not to yell no
to my first grade teacher.
I doubt if that would work though, because I remember trying not to do it.
Wait!
I would go back to November 22nd, 1963
Columbus School , when I came back from lunch at home
And some big kid yelled from the top floor
“Hey, the President was shot!”
and I yelled back “The president of what?”
I would like a redo of that moment.
Then I would feel smarter somehow.
Copyright © Caren Krutsinger | Year Posted 2021
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