Thursday, November 13, 2014

Then & Now (1994 & 2014)

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THEN
The little blue boy
in the back of the bus
is the only one who is
not one of us.

The little boy with
his eyes in a book
is the only one with
a different look.

We all shout and scream
and laugh with glee.
He, the bus driver’s dream,
has a knobby red knee.

Bespectacled, with a blue beret
who, amongst us, will fling it away?


NOW
Little blue boy is now
a full grown man.
I wash his car
as often as I can.

It’s okay that he
calls me “Flipper.”
I say it's okay because
he’s a generous tipper.

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Footnote
THEN & NOW (1994 & 2014) is the copyrighted property of LCSol.
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