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Siesta to Semester

End to Lazy Days of Summer

By: - Aug 13, 2015

 

Siesta to Semester

As a kid
Shocked by
Back to School
Widow displays
Brown’s Department Store
Downtown Gloucester
Mid August
How could that be
Still summer it
Seemed to me
Later teaching college
Out by May
Fourth of July
Sense of  dread
Vacation half gone
Counting the days
Fall semester
Started with faculty lunch
Annual convocation
President Sargent
Long past his prime
Still earning millions
That boiler plate
Convocation speech
Faculty in robes
What a snooze
Starting classes
Fresh student rosters
First lectures
Too many courses
Long commutes
Late nights followed by
Early mornings
End of first week
Totally pooped
Too soon frazzled
Now oblivious to
All that stress
Endless vacation
Phasing into
Life's winter season
When they grant
No degrees