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by Meg Kearney
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LIVING IN THE VOLCANO All I want is a falafel, a macramé purse, and First Piccolo in the marching band. Hey, my sunless tan puts an orange slant on everything I say. I mean I want to be first, and hippie free...but my tongue is a branding iron shaped in an “X” (I kiss your eyes and you’re dead), First Trombone turns left at the 40, and the rest of us wave bye-bye, too grumpy to follow. We say, let’s practice more, earn this pride of prima donnas a scholarship to Party University. We say, let’s melt down the horns, buy us some brewskies and vitamin M. We need to forget, for a two- -day bender, how much we can’t stand ourselves. But this is high school. And now Mother, our First Fan, has skipped town with the bakesale money and Finnegan, our only tuba. Who needs TV drama? This is life in the volcano. This is as cold as it gets. |
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