and it's not often when we know
last days as they are happening.
We've known one another for 15 years now,
since the 3 for a dollar necktie sale
at the Cleveland Street Salvation Army
the summer before I started teaching.
I wanted to look professional.
You and your friends wanted to help.
They're gone, and now I've noticed
you're a bit frayed at the knot,
kind of like I feel when standardized test
week approaches. You know what I mean.
So, what have we got left my old friend?
a lecture on the causes of the Cold War?
some discussion of Kennedy conspiracies?,
perhaps one last reading of "Letter from
a Birmingham Jail." All in all, and I hope
you'd agree, it's been a good run.
Whatever we've got left, let's make it count.
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