Sex 101
by Michael R. Burch
That day the late spring heat
steamed through the windows of a Crayola-yellow schoolbus
crawling its way up the backwards slopes
of Nowheresville, North Carolina...
Where we sat exhausted
from the day’s skulldrudgery
and the unexpected waves of muggy,
summer-like humidity...
Giggly first graders sat two abreast
behind senior high students
sprouting their first sparse beards,
their implausible bosoms, their stranger affections...
The most unlikely coupling—
Lambert, 18, the only college prospect
on the varsity basketball team,
the proverbial talldarkhandsome
swashbuckling cocksman, grinning...
Beside him, Wanda, 13,
bespectacled, in her primproper attire
and pigtails, staring up at him,
fawneyed, disbelieving...
And as the bus filled with the improbable musk of her,
as she twitched impaled on his finger
like a dead frog jarred to life by electrodes,
I knew...
that love is a forlorn enterprise,
that I would never understand it.
Keywords/Tags: first love, sex, sexy, lust, passion, desire, school, student, teen, teenage, learning, bus, foreplay, fingering, odor, musk, romance, romantic, humiliation
Saunderson and Sarenson
Friends in kindergarten.
Saunderson and Sarenson
Supporters of each other through senior high
Saunderson and Sarenson
Vowing to be friends to the end
Saunderson and Sarenson
Twenty-two year olds who both fall in love with Piggly Pie
Saunderson and Sarenson
Angry ex-friends who become jealous and suspicious now
Saunderson and Sarenson
Enemies when Piggly Pie chooses neither due to their feuding ways
Saunderson and Sarenson
No longer friends, lifelong bachelors living next door to each other
Saunderson and Sarenson
Lifelong enemies, blaming each other, not speaking
Saunderson and Sarenson
Dying on the same day, alone and friendless.
Where is heaven, what have we done
Why are we abandoned in hell
When can we stop using a gun
Whose children next do we farewell
What demon has set this mad spell
Littleton Columbine high school
Virginia tech was so cruel
Redlake senior high was another
How can heaven be I’m no fool
Please stop the tears of a mother
as we come to another June it's the season of graduations
a time to celebrate our children for fulfilling their educational obligations
be it from kindergarten, elementary, middle school, junior or senior high
tis the season of promotion a time to look towards the sky
as parents we are so proud of all your achievements and accomplishments
and we thank the Lord Our God for you are the gifts to us He sent
to the children we know that you're so glad it's over
and you're ready to jump and shout
but as parents we will take as many pictures as we want
when those degrees and diplomas are handed out
CONGRATULATIONS!! to all our graduates from the biggest to the small
and not to rain on your parade just remember it starts all over again next fall