First Day of School
The first day can be a lot,
With all of the procedures
And new cell phone policies,
Herding groups in packs
Of thirty, shuffling in the halls,
And five minutes later,
Alighting in some new room,
Basically the same as the
Last room and the next,
Sitting in assigned seats,
Completing notecards, and
Repeating ice breakers and
Introductions- neat, snaking
Relays of impersonal personal
Information- name, where
You have been, where
You are going, then, something
Quirky about yourself, over
And over until we all want
To know if we can just
Get this started, even if we
Just met, even if we haven’t
Learned each other’s names
In our eight hours of sameness.
Can we quit dancing already,
And just break something open?
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