Best Drills Poems

Lead me to the place where I can glance at your face, lead me to the place where I can in sit in solitude and reminisce the days of my youth.

 I felt like an only child roaming the woods in the town and piecing...

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In school, we practiced what to do
In case there was a fire.
We’d quickly exit, silently,
As teachers would require.

But there were also shelter drills,
(I’m talking decades back)
Where we would hide in case there was
A nuclear attack.

We’d crawl beneath our desks and wait
Until the signal bell
Would chime...

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school tornado drills are the same as they ever were
we line them up in hallways and have them put their heads down
like beetles, like spiders, like shy mice, like embarrassed snakes
it seems weird, but it is exactly like it was sixty years ago...

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