Michael Bray

Author of A Time To Kill

Wilmington Wrestling Tragedy (1)

(The First Reflection)
0755 on 26 Feb., 2023

Wrestling competition was coming up soon –
Which I enjoy better than my classical tunes.
Gonna leave my radio behind
And watch Wilmington kick some behind!
But one of my stars in not there!
He’ll be sittin’ in the stands somewhere;
“Kid got kicked off the team for a vape!”
“Oh no!  Whom did he rape?”
“Nobody!  I said he vaped some smoke!”
“What?  Must be some kind o’ joke!”
“Nope.  Got knocked right out o’ competition.
No chance to win those medals.
Got to sit and watch and not wrestle!”
“What? Might as well suffer under a pestle!
Why punish a whole wrestling team?
For such a harmless misdemeanor
Make him scrub some floors;
Wash down the principal’s walls,
Carry a ‘No Vaping’ sign in the halls!”
Yes, sometimes schools make stupid rules;
Makes administrators look like ghouls.
Sometimes you win; sometimes you lose;
There are ways punish and ways to abuse.

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