Reunion Poem
\nSource: unknown<\/p>\n
Every five years, as summertime nears,
\nAn announcement arrives in the mail,
\nA reunion is planned; it\u2018ll be really grand;
\nMake plans to attend without fail.<\/p>\n
I\u2018ll never forget the first time we met;
\nWe tried so hard to impress.
\nWe drove fancy cars, smoked big cigars,
\nAnd wore our most elegant dress.<\/p>\n
It was quite an affair; the whole class was there.
\nIt was held at a fancy hotel.
\nWe wined, and we dined, and we acted refined,
\nAnd everyone thought it was swell.<\/p>\n
The men all conversed about who had been first
\nTo achieve great fortune and fame.
\nMeanwhile, their spouses described their fine houses
\nAnd how beautiful their children became.<\/p>\n
The homecoming queen, who once had been lean,
\nNow weighed in at one-ninety-six.
\nThe jocks who were there had all lost their hair,
\nAnd the cheerleaders could no longer do kicks.<\/p>\n
No one had heard about the class nerd
\nWho\u2018d guided a spacecraft to the moon;
\nOr poor little Jane, who\u2018s always been plain;
\nShe married a shipping tycoon.<\/p>\n
The boy we\u2018d decreed \u201cmost apt to succeed\u201d
\nWas serving ten years in the pen,
\nWhile the one voted \u201cleast\u201d now was a priest;
\nJust shows you can be wrong now and then.<\/p>\n
They awarded a prize to one of the guys
\nWho seemed to have aged the least.
\nAnother was given to the grad who had driven
\nThe farthest to attend the feast.<\/p>\n
They took a class picture, a curious mixture
\nOf beehives, crew cuts and wide ties.
\nTall, short, or skinny, the style was the mini;
\nYou never saw so many thighs.<\/p>\n
At our next get-together, no one cared whether
\nThey impressed their classmates or not.
\nThe mood was informal, a whole lot more normal;
\nBy this time we\u2018d all gone to pot.<\/p>\n
It was held out-of-doors, at the lake shores;
\nWe ate hamburgers, coleslaw, and beans.
\nThen most of us lay around in the shade,
\nIn our comfortable T-shirts and jeans.<\/p>\n
By the fortieth year, it was abundantly clear,
\nWe were definitely over the hill.
\nThose who weren\u2018t dead had to crawl out of bed,
\nAnd be home in time for their pill.<\/p>\n
And now I can\u2018t wait; they\u2018ve set the date;
\nOur fiftieth is coming, I\u2018m told.
\nIt should be a ball, they\u2018ve rented a hall
\nAt the Shady Rest Home for the old.<\/p>\n
Repairs have been made on my hearing aid;
\nMy pacemaker\u2018s been turned up on high.
\nMy wheelchair is oiled, and my teeth have been boiled;
\nAnd I\u2018ve bought a new wig and glass eye.<\/p>\n
I\u2018m feeling quite hearty, and I\u2018m ready to party
\nI\u2018m gonna dance \u2018til dawn\u2018s early light.
\nIt\u2018ll be lots of fun; But I just hope that there\u2018s one
\nOther person who can make it that night.<\/p>\n
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