Shitsu wa re ta kodomojidai

today is the last day of school

Life

my friend is get her shirt signed

the class clown is busy showing off

his hilariously lame

Antics

the People are laughing their heads

‘cause they don’t have a place in history

or time,

the Loners are in their corner trying to

Shield

their fragile selves from the toxic, happy

Plastics by keeping shut.

I am reading

Soseki’s Botchan

the Wolves are smoking and drinking

under the shade of huge trees on the

soccer field’s outskirts.

sun’s shining bright, sky clear as blue

Glass.

Nerds are whisperin’, four-eyes downcast

debating on trigonometry.

the Invisible boy is drawin’ with pencils

on the cracked wall.

another typical school day

teacher comes in for attendance

wishes all the best to us

throws in a lil’ tear in the eye

Drama, leaves.

I step on a bottle of glycerin

while goin’ to piss.

When I come back

the board's covered in dust

chairs full of still, burnt corpses

their skin drippin' in flakes

wooden and metal splinters all around

jutting in and out of folks

windows shattered

walls charred

the floor slick with black grime.

exited the crumbling building

it was night outside

air felt strange

I reeked of rotten fish and shit

found a bruised figure on the roadside

she looked like our English teacher

asked her “What happened here?”

"Americans dropped the bomb on us!

You didn’t hear the sirens?!”

Only now I felt the pain kickin' in

I was naked and burnt.

my childhood is

Dead.