Steve, Of "The White Helmets": A Wonder On The Field! ? ? ...[ Geneva High School (N. Y.)sports; Basically All True; Longish; Humorous ] Poem by Bri Edwards

Bobo** said (in a low voice) :"Hey Steve, what the Hell ya doin'?
Spit out that 'bacco, as I shall allow MY players NO chewin'....
unless it's just Double Bubble, and then you've got to share.
Bring some tomorrow, here to Rm.218; bring it to my chair."

The next day just before the first bell, Steve BROUGHT the gum.
But he wasn't looking happy 'bout it.In fact...Steve looked glum!
But Mr. Manners had a smile on his most cherubic face. Yes he did.
"Put the gum here in this pile, son.I guess you're not such a bad KID....
after all.

BUT, .... the other day, at 'practice', you checked Achilles TOO damn hard.
His dad's a doctor, & big sports fan. So, from now on, be on your guard.
No more checking severely, UNLESS, of course, it's against Penn Yan.
THEN check THEM....as hard as is barely-legal.I'm SURE you understand....
what I mean."

Steve bowed his head [but DID I see him smile? ].He went and sat down,
not too far from Sue & Jim, Dave & Harry, Linda &.....Brian, the class clown.
I once saw Steve on the playing field, but I admit it was only in yearbook pics.
I thought it'd looked kind of funny....to see almost-grown men carrying sticks,

....... tossing a white ball back and forth, and SOMETIMES into a netted "goal".
I'm trying now to recall if, also on the lacrosse team was "a twin", Mike Troll.
I imagine Mike was somewhere else, tinkering with a carburetor, OR perhaps a clutch.
[Mike's twin sister Margie was ONE of the girls in High School I "admired" much.]

But I'd be remiss if I failed to also recall the yellow bloomers worn (once?)by P. Ilacqua.
She was, by far, one of the cutest girls...between Lake George and Lake Chautauqua! !
I'd mention more names, but I've probably gone "too far" already!I'm SO "bad".
Maybe it's one reason I've been divorced x3.By the way all my ex's are now SO sad....
to have lost me! ! !

OH!Back to Steve Wojchowski and his stellar sports career on the lacrosse field.
[But 1st, I apologize to both Mr. M's, wrestling coaches, for when I used to yield......
too easily to my wrestling rivals on "the mat".I sure saw a LOT of the gym ceiling! ]
OOPS!I'm a reprobate.Well, I see on Google that's not right, but it sure has 'feeling'.

[OOPS! I said because I thought the word meant I got 'off track', couldn't concentrate,
couldn't 'stay on' Steve's performance on a lacrosse field; is it getting so damn late? ]
Recently I read poems Steve (says he)wrote in Geneva High School, his senior year in....'66,
telling of his trials AND triumphs as a "White Helmet", .....playing with balls and sticks.

One 'trial' it seems was "running to Oaks Corners"; I walked through there..........
on my way to the horse racetrack!
AND "cross checks and slashes" caused Steve "pain".But, was it as embarrassing.....AS
......... it was for me on MY back! ?
One poem goes on to say that lacrosse was making "a savage out of me".It's sad, I say!
Perhaps it prepared him for carrying mail, a career HE made for himself another day?

Now he's retired and seems quite content, 'traveling', then going 'Homeward Bound'.
I wonder if he still writes (poems) .If so, I'll bet publishers galore, Steve, do hound....
for the publishing rights to his 'newer poems', as well as for his high school "artifacts".
Hm?Or is he, instead, mostly traveling, drinking beer and munching LOTS of snacks?

"Thanks", Steve for the entertainment, and "Thanks", Phyllis, for sending each poem.
Did Spurgeon B. Wuertenberger make some ofus what we are? ?IF so, we owe 'im.
But I'd guess many of us should also thank: parents, church, scouts, and teachers,
all of whom steered some of us to being 'soldiers', mail carriers, OR....even preachers.

(September...1st...2018)



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P.S.
Interestingly enough, in my researchto find how to spell (correctly)"OUR" principal's name: ....[remember: Principal is our Pal; Principle is a Rule! ].......I found that the 'current' assistant principal is also a 'sandwich': Nathan Schneckenburger. Ok!One was a "-berger" and one is a "-burger".

AND I FOUND:

" In 1863, Geneva schools were desegregated."

AND I FOUND:

"On November 6,1900, the Geneva High School football team set a football scoring record, defeating Weedsport High School 109 to 0 on Hobart Field in Geneva"


brian:)