Those Were the Days, I'M Telling You
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High School ~
Being asked to search my memory of school 'daze' gone by
is asking quite a lot of me but I promise to give it a try.
A country high school can't compare to a fancy school in a city
but with fewer girls around, boys thought most of us were pretty.
I hope that doesn't sound boastful because I'm not vain
but there weren't many boys I would've wanted for a swain.
I fell in love with the hunky quarterback of the football team.
Oh those sexy eyes, but he only loved me in my dreams.
I was on the track team because I thought running was fun
Usually first off the blocks when I heard the starting gun,
but not always the first to cross the finish line,
so I switched to throwing javelin and I did just fine.
Volleyball, 4-H, school paper, and Library Club President.
No, I wasn't a nerd, but I liked books, and so it went.
Still friends with Elaine and Charlene, way back since first grade
good friendships like the ones we forged will never fade.
High school days were over and college life was dead ahead.
Part of me was excited but the other part was filled with dread.
and then on to college ~
Only hours away, but I was a homesick little country girl.
I really wasn't prepared to be thrown into the great big world.
I felt like Raggedy Ann surrounded by Barbie queens.
What I knew about life didn't amount to a hill of beans.
I concentrated on classes, not always able to pick and choose.
A Freshman's life is awkward, but I stayed away from booze....
well, most of the time I did, but don't let that info get out.
Mom and Dad thought I was behaving, without a doubt.
Football games, pizza and beer, dating all those cute guys
Oh yeah, I went to class because little sister had big eyes.
She was one year behind me and became my roommate,
but Mom and Dad didn't know she got me the guys to date.
In Junior year I had a professor who wrote great poetry
He was the perfect mentor for a would be poet such as me.
I fell in love at least twenty times, but not that special some one.
I had a big wide world waiting for me and I was having fun.
Four years of study and socializing, and a BA next to my name.
I got a job that didn't require what I'd learned, but just the same,
I got an education and a vocabulary of some pretty big words
which comes in mighty handy now that I've become a poetry nerd.
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January 31, 2016 Judy Konos' Let's Hear it Contest
Copyright © Lin Lane | Year Posted 2016
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