69 camaro ss dark blue with white stripe
73 mustang mach one yellow with black stripe
72 plymouth duster 340 orange with black stripe
65 thunderbird candy apple red no stripe
'59 Dodge all prettied up
must be daddy’s pride and joy
all here perfect attendance tonight friday night
all the cool cats and kittens
cheerleaders with too much makeup and teethy smiles
carhops young and cute with their blonde ponytails bobbing
flirting with the boys with big gold class rings and all the coolspeak
in the cars flashing smile
most straight from the high school football game
trojans won 13-10 on a late field goal
over the old arch rival
in front of parents, in front of students
in front of kids who aren’t athletic, or popular
seeing themselves being separated from the ‘in crowds’
hamburgers all the way with a frosty mug o’ root beer
afterwards cruising up and down u.s. 41
see and be seen on the scene
big football day in the big ten tomorrow
you never miss those games
leaves wearing colors of fall
black cherry reds, sugar maple golds and halloween oranges
sweater weather setting in
senior year; next year will be so much different
going away to ivy walled colleges
with walkways through sprawling oak trees
gray haired poetry professors
spouting keats and longfellow as they pass
dorms, lecture halls 300 seats strong
filled with wide-eyed freshmen trying to find their footing
fraternities, sororities, new friends
some old friends starting jobs ‘keep in touch’
you mean to but you know you won’t
