I'll See You ... In September !?
As our Young Newly Adult's approaches
graduation and Adult Hood and Go from Adolescent and puberty at the same time, at their
own, calm, deliberate, serious rate,
They begins to kick up their heels, jazz out their
hands, thrust out their hipbones, chant
I’m great! I’m great! They feels 12th grade coming
open around their, a chrysalis cracking and
letting them out, it falls behind them and
joins the other husks on the ground,
9th grade, 7th grade, the
magenta rind of 6th grade, the
hard jacket of 4th when they had so much pain,
3rd grade, 2nd, the dim cocoon of
1st grade back there somewhere on the path, and
kindergarten like a strip of thumb-suck blanket
taken from the actual blanket they wrapped them in at birth.
The whole school is coming off their shoulders like a
cloak unclasped, and they dance forth in their
jerky sexy child’s joke dance of
self, self, their throat tight and a
hard new song coming out of it, while their
two dark eyes shine
above their body like a good mother and a
good father who look down and
love everything their baby does, the way they
lives their love.