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Poetry: High school

QUADRENNIAL CHRONICLES

Four years

Captured

In books

Hardcover

Leatherbound

Memories

Glossy pages

Technicolor

Moments in time

Faces of teachers

Student visages

So fresh, yet so stale

Glee club, chess club, French club

Basketball and baseball

Community service

Seniors in their finery

Futures of gold in their eyes

Glamour shots in grimy times

These books are annual chronicles

Depicting high highs and low lows

Milestones en route to the real world...

and yet I was never able to get a single copy of those books, and I never took a single picture.

Does this mean that my graduation is void?

Though I wanted to be immortalized, though I craved four years worth of evidence, financially they were out of my reach.

Does this mean that I spent four years for nothing?

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Poetry: High school

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    by Alexander Sarmiento

    QUADRENNIAL CHRONICLES

    Four years

    Captured

    In books

    Hardcover

    Leatherbound

    Memories

    Glossy pages

    Technicolor

    read more

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    Graduating

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    We were just starting out
    Our minds were filled with wonder
    Our hearts with doubt

    We walked

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