End of summer countdown before school year...

countless decades graduating 

contemptible cum laude

hence same time frame every

August since...the stone

temple pilot age, this beastie

boy flashes back to yahoos

whose rawhide (mine) they

miraculously never whipped!

Uneasy panic stricken mindset

ensued mere weeks prior when

mum calls "time to wait for bus,"

despite miserable, horrible, and

execrable experience boarding

trademark yellow beast, when

driver opens maw generating

"whoosh" quickly scanning

parallel rows of cushioned seats

counting blessing after espying

pitch perfect place to plop posterior

farthest distance but tween one nerd

i.e. yours truly, garden variety long

haired pencil neck geek and posse of

unruly purple people eaters, analogous

to doppleganger Barney's (the playful

dinosaur kids love), nonetheless able,

ready and willing to shoot cruel, galling,

leering, quizzing...painful piercing skin

hardened killing stares accompanied with

smoke issuing nostrils awaiting golden

opportunity to kick me bony bum keister

while I frantically scurried, hightailed bat

of hell exitted out hydraulic operated door,

oft times mostly quick enough to hurriedly

scamper among madding crowd of students

eagerly (ha) awaiting to enter academia's gruff

feet teed hallowed bricked walls, one puny

pubescent hiding these lovely bones out of

harm's way, meanwhile my heart did beat mile

a minute, profuse sweat drenched (even during

dead of winter), and pulse went thru stratosphere,

which reprieve lasted until deafening bell broad

cast courtesy intercom indicated all liz fair in love

and war (that sacred metaphorical loving battleground

being trapped inside storied halls of learning thank ye

skool of hard knocks, doing level best to sidle in close

proximity to baddest, biggest, boldest incredible hulk

hoping to stave off inevitable, yet unbeknownst to this

then scrappy runt, said goliath brute (I spontaneously

cozied up), alongside main ringleader regarding rebel

rousers, thus unwittingly, nicely, handily delivering

sought after prey perfectly into predator's clutches

realizing to late (ex post facto), a self touted pièce

de résistance did nothing to thwart salvation, ah joy

fully recalling fond memories contributing to electric

kool aid positive battery acid test learning experiences

at Methacton ideally trained for guerilla warfare.