My very
first day of grade one
was scary
and crazy and made me want to run.
My teacher’s
name was Mr. Lott,
and handsome,
he was surely not.
He was the
king of room 123,
he made us bow
to his majesty.
I still
remember the way I spelled my name,
one out of 7
billion would spell it the same.
My teacher
told me “Krestafr” was wrong.
Learning to
spell it right took very long.
Maybe that’s
why I fell asleep in class,
Hey, an 11
letter name wore out my ass.
I had a rat’s
tail that wasn’t really cool
Yet, if
anyone pulled it, then “I’d pity the fool.”
By lunchtime,
I learned that bologna was gross,
pulled it
out of my sandwich and left it in rows.
The Turkish lunch
lady wasn’t impressed,
she later
made me wipe the desk.
Our school
mascot was a teddy bear,
but the
truth is, the school wasn’t fair.
I got
trampled because of my size.
If you know
me now-you shouldn’t be surprised.
The trampling
made a cut on my knee.
I was surprised,
scared and suddenly had to pee.
I asked someone-
the janitor I presume,
“Excuse me,
sir, but where is the bathroom?”
He went on
and on and said something about a ‘corridor’?
But before I
knew it, I’d already peed on the floor.
It was a
long day and not very fun,
I was
already starting to hate grade one.
When I got
home I put on my cape
and said, “if
you send me again, I shall escape.”