by Garth Paul Ukrainetz
The month of June can’t come too soon
The saying goes inside the staff rooms
Most teachers’ tanks are running empty
Low fuel within, they’re all teached out
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Ignition sequence slowly starting
Young astronauts awaiting lift off
Dreaming, gazing out the windows
The students now in countdown mode
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Long year it was for sharpened minds
10 months of grinding education
The pencils short, good patience shorter
Toss learning’s shavings to the wind
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Yes, summer’s here, it’s time to fly
Fold lesson plans like paper airplanes
Let’s rocket launch to outer space
New frontiers bold beyond the schoolyard
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Calgary Public, Calgary Catholic
Deep down it’s true we’re all the same
We dream in June of summer breezes
That blow the cares of school away
