School—12:15 by Tina Boyer Brown

[conuly]

Imagine the lunchroom,
crowded and wary—
seating charts a welcome apprehension.

Loose-leaf
papers spiraled from
ballpoint-scratched notebook covers
until the last hour,
when a teacher
sighed and sighed.

Today, we close our backpacks,
but minutes
come quick and quit
the ease of dawn.

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Comments

[madamoiselle_sambuca]

Soon... soon my pretties~~!! 😈😈😈

[adafrog]

Good.

[pushkin666]

Oh I like that a lot. Reminds me of a lot, even though it's been years since I was at school!

I particularly liked these lines:-

until the last hour, when a teacher sighed and sighed.