The Reunion Parade

Written
1996

 Class of '39

      Class of '40

            Class of '46

                  Fall In!

                         Fall In!

                         Close ranks!

                         Dress right!

Pull in those stomachs

     and stick out your chests!

Show some pride!

Lets look like veteran classes

      and show the kids how!

Ready yourself for the Reunion Parade.

Dig out your memory stones and rub

      them hard enough

      to bring back the old days.

Bring back the big game with Raton

      with the cheers and the Old Miner band.

Open the yearbook

      and prove that the Shirleys

      were not really called the "Singing Shirleys".

Nor were all that Dolceanas Chorus named Shirley

      it just seems so in dim memories.

Try to remember without a peek

      the honor roll and then

      with ease recall

      those on the football team.

I'll give you a list of names and you tell

      me who dated whom.

List the teachers

      and tell one story about each.

Ask Benny whatever happened

     to Donald Johnson and

     the score against Salida when we

      almost won the confence championship.

Get out your grandchildren's pictures and be

      ready to brag some.

Go to the memory wall and show me

      the pictures of those lost

      on this last tour of duty.

Lets talk about a lot of water that

      has flowed under the bridge.

Lets compare notes on ailments and

     doctors and note that some

     don't want to participate in this talk.

And we must see where we danced and

      drank beer at 17.

So, at reunion time put on your uniforms and

      play our expected role in

      the Reunion Parade.

 Fall in!

Close Ranks!

Dress Right!

Eyes on The Memory Wall!

Time for the big Reunion Parade!

Notes
Published as the first poem in "Trinidad, Colorado, My Home Town" For the class of 1946 reunion.