High School Students in the
Coffee Shop, Sunday Afternoon
The students gather in the
shop—
They fill the tables—all.
So I slump in an easy chair
Along the eastern wall.
Computers glow—the smart
phones too.
And drinks of every kind
Distributed on tabletops
While kids do what’s assigned.
Their fingers dance on keyboard
keys—
I hear Hi-Liters squeak
As they mark passages that
they’ll
Remember—or critique.
The conversations drift a
bit—
From school to friends and
such.
But when they speak of
youth’s New World,
I just don't get too much.
It’s hopeful, seeing
earnestness
Among the very young.
They’re singing to the world
the songs
That youth has always sung.
When Robert uses words like juxtapose,
I feel like socking Robert in
the nose.
Shakespeare Couplet: Romeo
and Juliet (4)
And Romeo, in love, has come
to learn
That Rosalind chose not to love but spurn. (1.1)
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