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Rangitoto School Daze
In my youth's frolic at King Lear and Pi
mine was a jester's Shakespearean tale.
Not algebra, not prose did edify
yet test and limits we pass lest we fail.
To learn and open closed minds to ideas
but I learnt before a fall comes a pride
with a conspiracy one alone bears
yet co-conspirators had much to hide.
For each lame alibi concealed misdeed,
each crazed sedition blotted my ledger
but we all do a true life lesson heed
when cowl or crown we wear is to measure.
Clever is the joker and clown in school
but better a wise king than a wise fool.
Written: May 1992
Pics above: That's me in high school
with a couple friends.
The year is 1977 and
we are just 16 years old.
You see, I had hair once!
Copyright ©
Keith D Trestrail
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