Thursday, July 11, 2024

A school boy again April 20, 2012


She takes me back to school

like I was back then,

when I had to hold my books

up against me to hide

 how I felt about

my pretty science teacher,

 only now not sitting

with book bag in

the back of her class,

but with a camera and pad,

 jotting down all I was supposed to collect,

 stirred up to a froth just

listening to her even when

 she's not talking to me at all,

 not quite yet as intense

 as I felt all those years ago,

 but close, getting closer,

 a stiff reaction to a lesson

only she knew how to teach,

 though like back then,

 it is not the lesson

 I am listening to by to

 the sound of her voice,

the movement of her lips,

 hips and all the rest,

 no school boy should be

 playing attention to.


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