when I said goodbye to my last class

when I said

goodbye

to my last class

I played Bohemian Rhapsody

and The End by The Beatles

and then I sang

Ring of Fire

strumming like Johnny

I took the knife

sharp     heavy

and cut the strawberry shortcake

into 14 pieces

one for each

while we ate I glimpsed

into the hard growing up teen world

of

          making

ones

way

and then I said my last goodbye

my red shirt receding into the past