Clumsy Old Me
the clumsy old me whoosh i fly past the horrible front office and run into the counceler with her cup fill to the brim with instant coffee a sorrya i blurt a but this be my new dressa she sob before she finish i be already down to the third grade hall after i pass the third grade hall i pass the gloomy music room where i could hear them sing jingle bell when it be october finally i be to my boring classroom i put my hand on the cold silver door handle and open it a allison you be late again a bark miss perky i slump down in my seat but i slump down to much and fell out of my seat everybody laugh even my teacher it be just another day at williams elementary a well it time for specialsa miss perky sigh a allison a haley blurt a we have p. e. a i didna't answer a i slowly walk down the hall with my head hung low mark speed down the hall with a jam jar full of blue red and yellow marble i decide to wave to my nerdy spell freak friend but a i bring my hand back to the side of my thigh i slam into the right bottom corner of the marble jar crash the marble jar go fly and almost hit the light right smack in the middle of the hall but just come back down and hit steve simmons on the head a oh noa i whisper steve just lay there on the green and pink carpet a i be finea he mumble a but mary you better not hit me in the head again a a you really do it this timea haley sigh a now he will be call everyone the wrong name a steve get up and start stamp around in circle say a i see starsa over and over again finally we be at p. e. it be my favorite place because i never crash into anybody or hit him or her in the head a you kid well be careful because the janitor will be do there every six week cleaninga miss p. say on the little black microphone today we be go to jog around the gym to some old time music so we can be prepare for the one-mile run a the music begin to play miss laho the janitor begin to start a conversation with mr. p. miss lahoa's red-hot paint fingernail be lightly vibrate on the electric mop a allisona haley mumble a be it suppose to do that a a haley watch out a my nerdy spelling freak friend shout the electric mop have zoom over the silver gray bucket of water and be head straight for haley so i dive on it to try and make it turn back around my plan do not go a plan the mop still go straight and bonked haley a no a i yell it be head for the stag slam it hit the stage and make and enormous hole in the back oh no p. e. be no long my favorite place for the rest of the day i grow out of my clumsy self and act like a normal human be until tomorrow when the horrible cycle of humiliation start all over again but for now i can pretend that i be the most graceful creature to walk the hall of my elementary a girl can dream cana't she