history class

"if i said 'ass' an elder would slap me.
back when gas was 50 cents."

if anything was learned in history
class. it was that times change.

i sat in the back, wondering if an
old man would slap my history teacher

because he said the word "ass"
but perhaps he would be forgiven

because he was showing how
different it is now livin'.

i still sit in the back of class
except this time

my teachers are the old man
and old women. they don't

say "ass", but rather "shit"
and "damn"

i want to go up to them
and ask if they believe

in the Lord and if slaps
they can afford

telling them that they
weren't supposed to say

things like that. but one thing
i've learned in class.

times change. but i wish
we could go back.