his Maw  . . . boy, you’ll look at me when I’m talkin’ to you.

Isnt necessary I can hear you as clear as a bell*  who thought thaup  clean as a whistle slick as snot dug the terminologies

Keep your sass talk for your friends Im not your friend shed say

I’m not one of ‘em.  Turn around. Look at me.

                                               performed a brisk overthetop military aboutface  learned it before he was drummed out of the cadet Civil Air Patrol paramilitary organisation

there was something innate  he had against organisations

tried them on

was bounced from Boy Scouts

didnt play nice with others

learned early he wasnt nice

or one to bend a knee

take orders

exhaled   Wha

Who do you think you’re talking to?

    Im listening

Sass. You wouldn’t talk this way to your father.  he did 

 

    Well?

Wha

I received a telephone call from your principal.

Ja

   He said he was calling you  I was in his outer office

I saved you from being suspended.

Was he going to suspend her

Who?

My teacher

Your teacher?

Who hit me in the face with a fistful of papers because my handwriting doesnt slant like someone who writes with their right hand

He said you knocked papers out of her hand

I was seated in my desk

He said you knocked them out of her hand.

    You made me turn around to listen to this

 

What’s the truth?

She’s a liar.

it wasnt the last time teachers or coaches or adults had issues with him

                                                                             he stood his ground

1234,  Tuesday,  18  11. 25

asterisk  included in John Ray's 1670 collection of English proverbs

Harlan Ellison  The Other Glass Teat  slick as snot

Pink Floyd  Wish You Were Here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdNnw99-Ic