Wearing a smile the photographer chose in your yearbook picture
\nand the wistful faux-fencepost-leaning pose in your yearbook picture.<\/p>\n
An old barn, a covered bridge, and a hickory with a rope swing:
\nquaint country backdrop complete with scarecrows in your yearbook picture.<\/p>\n
You think of it as a leather-bound time capsule those fiends designed
\nto immortalize blackheads on the nose of your yearbook picture.<\/p>\n
Pinstriped Oxford, turquoise ascot, and a burgundy sweater vest:
\nyour nanna certainly picked special clothes for your yearbook picture.<\/p>\n
Bullies above and beneath, locker room tormentors on each side.
\nThe alphabet conspired to place foes around your yearbook picture.<\/p>\n
Though taken in a gymnasium\u2014how many odd years ago?
\nyour hair speaks of a rude wind that still blows in your yearbook picture.<\/p>\n
Did you just peel yourself off a gym mat? You have the look of one
\nprematurely awoken from a doze in your yearbook picture.<\/p>\n
After careful analysis of this artifact, we conclude:
\nyou doubt your right to exist, and it shows in your yearbook picture.<\/p>\n
You look as comfortable as one who must learn to accept that he
\nwill stand forever wearing reversed shoes in his yearbook picture.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear who you plead with, what crime you beg to be forgiven,
\nbut no dam can stop the pathos that flows from your yearbook picture.<\/p>\n
They wrote their cursive congrats and inside jokes in the front and back
\nbut who left bitter, plagiarized prose below your yearbook picture?<\/p>\n
Behind your back they voted you \u201cleast likely to succeed\u201d… and yet\u2026
\nI could swear a sliver of halo glows o\u2019er your yearbook picture.<\/p>\n
A few years (give or take a decade) and find yourself looking at
\na face no-one\u2014especially yourself\u2014knows in your yearbook picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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