Lyric Essay (English 305 Paper #2 -- possible draft)

The loves of my life

Athens
We snuck away at recess, me gleefully enamored by the love of my life. Her boyfriend just broke up with her today. So she, her friend and I had tricked the teachers to let us use the restrooms, each asking minutes apart so suspicion would be avoided. Teachers are so stupid. And kids sneaky when they’re with the girl they’ll later remember as their first kiss and when they’re 24 recall as that tricky girl. We went and played in the bathrooms those games that kids play, flashing the lights and playing bloody Mary. The bathrooms were unlike those in the States… they were small, cramped starting with a closet with a sink and a door, the door leading to another closet with a toilet. The only lighting a 60 watt bulb above the sink and a high, small window above the toilet… we closed the toilet door, turned off the light and spun in circles 13 times saying “bloody Mary, Bloody Mary” … each of us acting scared when we “saw” her in the mirror, trying to get the others scared, the faux fear hiding the real fear that someone else really saw her…

The three of us ended up in a janitor’s closet, they sent me in first, as they talked outside in whispers… finally they came in and closed the door… I was sitting on my heels as they shuffled and the love of my life came up to me and started kissing me… the darkness made it rebellious and naughty… Then the bell rang.

She was dating her boyfriend again the next day.

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Austin
A sweet red head that I met at Boy Scout camp. I always wanted to date a red head. She came to camp every Friday, to visit with her dad and brother, every time she’d stop by one of the stores I managed and hung out with me and my employees. One of my guys had a crush on her so he asked her out, we all teased her about it when he wasn’t around… he wasn’t exactly a catch. “We’ll I don’t have any other date that night.” Eventually I find myself flirting with her in the back office, as I count the thousands we made that night. The boy gets a dear John and I get a sweet angel… in the pine trees we’d walk and everything seemed so alive, as the very leaves we shuffled along were decomposing.

Her brother warned me not to date her.

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Across the US
She was blonde and an annoying self centered girl that I was stuck with. I became a missionary to evangelize within my church, to bring the God I had just met to the youth. Not to be stuck with two team leaders that already were grinding on my nerves and this bimbo who could do nothing but talk about herself. This was not going to be a good year.

We were forced to take a day off together… I was excited and I told my team brothers about it… they laughed and said it wouldn’t be that bad… if nothing else you can sleep through it.

The lake shimmered and she was quiet. The horses meandered around us. We watched Cinderella 2, a horrible cartoon movie that made us want to claw our own minds out… but we laughed.

I fell in love with her, she warned me not to.