Bloomington High School South, The Gothic, 1978, Page 162

Description:	Empty imageMary HaganA bird black as an empty hole, flies.Soundlessly its wings beatSlowly against the gray sky.A moving, soaring silhouette,Too steady for a bird, but it is a bird.Black, black, its wings take him over the houses alTheir windows like shocked, staring faces,All staring at that piece of nothingnessThat paces through the sky.Sitting and thinkingScott AndersonHe sits:and while he sits he thinksHe sits:and he thinks of his lifeHe sits:and he cries, for he is aloneHe sits:and he wipes his tearsHe stands:and he walks awayHe walks:never to stop againHe stoops:and he fallsHe lies:and hislife isdone.Beth HaganQmaMBeing small is not fun, and being smalland a freshman is even worse. I havelearned to cope with both of these conditions, but it has not been easy.There are a couple of things that geton my nerves most. One thing bad aboutbeing small is that you are always gettingpushed around. Getting stepped on inthe halls, pushed into the lockers, andbeaten brutally are daily events. Besidesbeing just a freshman and gettingpushed around by upperclassmen, I alsoget stepped on and pushed around byother freshmen.Another thing is getting tested on.Now, I suppose you have no idea what Imean by getting tested on; and if youJay Curtsdo not know that I mean, you are lucky.What I mean by getting tested on isthis. When somebody is telling a storyand acting it out, they take the smallestguy and start showing everybody how itis done. Example: Oh and did you seeAli start jabbing at Shavers. Oh, man, hejust kept hitting him (jab into my stomach) and dancing and everything; andthen, when Shavers was all shook up andweary, Ali belted him like this . . . So Ihave bruises all over me, and I am sorethe rest of the day.After many years of experience, I amgetting used to it; and I just take it all instride. But that is enough about badthings. Now I go to the not so bad part,and that is dreaming about being big.Probably the thing I would like mostabout being big is basketball. I long toget in a real live HPER game. That maynot sound like much; but after playingthere by myself and just sitting therewatching those big guys, play is not veryfun. But why just HPER basketball andnot school ball? Ill tell you why. It isbecause you do not have a coach yellingat every move you make. When you playat the HPER, you play to please yourselfand not a coach; and you play the wayyou want to play, which in my case (andmost peoples) is run and gun.So I cant wait until I grow and growand grow.162 Creativity
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