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We used to watch you from the teacher’s lounge

Kelley Jean White MD

Our Valedictorian, class of 1972, straight A’s, 1500 SAT’s
accepted by three Ivy League Schools (or was it four,)
and there you were in the parking lot with the tough boys
from bad homes, rubbing against their low slung jeans
while they squinted into smoke, there you were in your
own dirty jeans, hair hanging limp-loose, plastered up against
a bad boy from a tough home on the seat of a ‘60 Chevy,
there you were dark winter 4 o’clocks where the beer was hid
and the dope passed hand to hands, there you were, 7 am
stepping from a truck in the clothes you wore the day
before. We were making bets on you. Even money
you’d make it through ‘til June. Even money you’d
graduate at all.

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