Abington High School Student Arts Magazine 2017-2018 | Page 62

THEME FOR ENGLISH

Bobby Carey, 2018

The coach said,

Go home and write

A page tonight

And let that page come out of you –

Then, it will be true.

I wonder if it’s that simple?

I am the small-town kid, seventeen,

Born and raised in Abington,

Soon to walk at graduation and become an adult.

I am the only Bobby Carey in Abington,

Down Gliniewicz Way, across town,

Down route 18, onto Washington Street,

Through the side door, through the kitchen,

Up the stairs and down the hallway,

I rummage through scattered thoughts to attempt to pass my classes.

It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me

In high school, immature and young. But I guess I’m what People tell me I am,

I believe in exactly what people tell me I am,

I’m immature, ridiculous, obnoxious, and I need to grow up,

But yet I’m smart, handsome, ambitious, and I have unused potential.

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, love, and have fun.

I like to work out, I like to make people laugh,

I like to improve myself, I like to be alone, I like to keep to myself,

I like cars, I like money, I like being myself.