{"id":11292,"date":"2014-08-23T21:55:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T04:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/?p=11292"},"modified":"2017-01-26T22:43:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T05:43:44","slug":"i-am-a-nerd-section-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/i-am-a-nerd-section-1\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a Nerd (section 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Class reunion
\nnot exact<\/em>ly fun
\nuntil the third rum
\nand Coke.
\nThen one school chum
\ninterrupts the hum
\nand buzz
\nand half-drunken fuzz
\nfor a joke.
\nHis Genuine Draft thunks down
\n(the emblematic drink of this small midwestern town)
\nand he says
\n“So… Doyce
\n“… are you still a nerd?”<\/p>\n

(Before I proceed, a disclaimer
\nabout this guy, not me,
\nhe’s
\na bit of a skeeze
\nhe might quip he didn’t let fame or
\nfortune change him
\nI might say he hasn’t changed his denim
\nWranglers. Might be the same pair
\nhe wore down there
\nunder his gown, where
\nhe stood up with the rest of us
\nmortarboard on like the rest of us
\nall the way down at the end of the line
\nfiftieth out of forty-nine
\ndiploma-receiving graduates.<\/p>\n

See,
\nhe’s
\nnot so much ‘chum like a friend you meet’
\nas ‘chum like the shit sharks eat’
\nno real friend of mine
\nand, certainly, it would feel sickly sublime
\nto simply dismiss him this time,
\nask how his wife likes the wine
\nor how it feels standing in line
\nfor unemployment.<\/p>\n

But there would be no enjoyment.)<\/p>\n

We’re all together<\/em> here
\nFeeling the booze and beer
\nand good cheer
\nsitting at folding tables
\ntelling each other fables.
\nabout the last twenty five years.<\/p>\n

So rather than rage,
\nI decide to engage
\nand say:
\n“A nerd? Me?
\n“Yes.
\n“Absolutely.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Class reunion not exactly fun until the third rum and Coke. Then one school chum interrupts the hum and buzz and half-drunken fuzz for a joke. His Genuine Draft thunks down (the emblematic drink of this small midwestern town) and he says “So… Doyce “… are you still a nerd?” (Before I proceed, a disclaimer … <\/p>\n

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