Duck Hunting Day

My 1st high school assembly!

Oh, no, say it isn’t so, bro!

 

Over the intercom comes this demon-voice

 

Saying, “All students report to the gymnasium for

 

An assembly.”  Assembly, my a*s, it was Sophomore

 

Initiation Day; where juniors and seniors got to abuse

 

Us lowly sophomores.  Already uncomfortable, and wishing

 

I was invisible, the last thing I wanted was any attention

 

Whatsoever being heaped on me.  We filed into the gym,

 

And had to sit on the floor, while seniors sat on one

 

Side of the bleachers, and the juniors on the other,

 

And it was a madhouse.  Almost immediately, the air

 

Was filled with flying stuff, as the juniors and seniors

 

Took out their lowly opinion of us sophomores, by hurling

 

Coins, other assorted aerodynamic items,

 

And eggs, lots of eggs.  It was a school-sanctioned

 

Launching pad, and we sophomores were set up

 

As perfect targets.  I just kept my head down as gravity

 

Brought embarrassment and projectiles reining from the skies

 

If I’d had a circular saw and a shovel, I’d have cut and

 

Dug my way right out of there, but it seems

 

I’d left those particular items in my locker; so the best

 

I could hope for was a quick ending to Sophomore Duck

 

Hunting Day.  I’d almost survived, when something

 

Smacked me in the jaw; it was an egg; it stung, let me tell

 

You, but I wasn’t about to show it; looking back on it,

 

I was lucky it didn’t hit me in the eye.  Anyway,

 

I managed to survive, somehow, with nothing else nailing me,

 

And we filed out of the gym; later, I found out that

 

My older friends knew who through the flying jelly-filled orb

 

That hit me in the face, but no one would tell me,

 

Which was lucky for me, because I would have been

 

Forced to never say anything to the thrower

 

Anyway, high school was off to a flying start, literally!      

Reviews

[char]

Whoa. Your high school sounds kinda scary. My class are seniors, we didn't bully anyone and the worst we can think of as a prank is to order a whole lot of pizza and send it to a fellow classmate's hotel room. Which isn't very mean.

[Michael Stevens]

I wish the pizza prank had of been pulled on me; I could have handled that!