Reunion: A Letter To Classmates.....[personal; High School Friends] Poem by Bri Edwards

Reunions are cool.....though maybe not so much in the summer.
That this year I'll miss my first one ever is a bit of a bummer.
It's at least interesting to see you all.....even you aging macho guys,
and to give or get answers to all the 'who? 'S, 'what? 'S, and 'why? 'S.


I've seen classmates since last reunion.....at least a dozen,
including a 'no-show' Genevan, .....Connie A., my dear cousin. Visiting Kit L. (and wife) in Rocky Mountains, for me, was a treat.
In Ohio, John F. fixed my wife and me, at his home, something yummy to eat.
We've had two meals at Bob (& Martha) B's in their hilltop home (quite high) ,
and dinner out in Bangkok with Karl M. and wife; Urai speaks both English and Thai.


At last reunion I was retired, living back in our hometown;
now my life has changed (again) .....since then a lot has 'gone down'.
I learned to use internet which helped me find my new mate.
I got my first cellphone; with 'tech things' I'm quite late.
I've settled in wife's San Carlos home, not far from S.F. Bay and ocean.
My child's become a doctor, and gotten her medical career in motion.
I don't do Facebook or Twitter but I did join Classmates.com,
on which I put my long 'story'; in size it is a bomb.


I hope my absence won't wreck reunion for anyone this year.
One or two, in my absence, might even, to reunion, more readily steer!
Therefore I plan to send this, if I can, to my classmates' email,
but in five year's time I do plan to attend; I hope my plan doesn't fail.
Of course that's assuming there is one, and I'm still 'around',
and enough reunion committee members are in a few years found.


To all of you I send my greetings and my sincere best wishes.
I'm sorry I won't be there to help, with all the dirty dishes.


And 'thank you' to Sandy (S.) and all other reunion workers, present and past.
Good health to all my high school classmates as middle age creeps up fast!
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