Posted in 138 Station St, Nepean High School, tagged guilt, school sport, shoplifting, teachers on August 4, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Returning from Katoomba
After playing against Katoomba High.
An unscheduled stop
At Woodford
A busfull of boys
Surge into the store.
Teachers powerless
Shopkeeper horrified.
Boys fly out,
Loading the bus, laughing.
Pockets bulging.
Her [shopkeeper’s] haunted silence
Saddened eyes
Piercing mine.
This time innocent …
But burning an everlasting guilt.
Posted in 138 Station St, Nepean High School, tagged break and enter, crime, guilt, secret, thrills, trespass on July 10, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Being in the village primary school
A sense of trespass & guilt smothers
The electric thrill from
Anticipating the break-in.
The lions are roaring in distance
A police patrol car scouts the area.
Eerie.
We’ve entered without breaking
… well, only our sensibilities,
Maybe it awoke them.
An escapade, never before mentioned.
Posted in 1 Guildford Rd, 10 Reserve St, Penrith South Primary, tagged fighting, guilt, lies, responsibility, School Captain, values on March 27, 2012| 1 Comment »
I wore my badge with pride.
To do and serve.
To do and serve - it was clear to me who I had to serve.
An early test.
Hidden in school’s S-W corner, cricket nets.
Lunchtime game.
Tension between two players*,
A scuffle, punches thrown.
Blood spilled.
Headmaster Smith: “What happened, Max?”
“Hit by the ball, Sir.”**
My duty was to do and serve …
Question!
Who?
Notes:
* This event probably has no place in anyone else’s memory … but I cannot remember who the combatants were, I would love somoene to remind me.
** To this day I don’t know whether this was a “good lie” or a “bad lie”. Was it the right or wrong thing to do? I was in a position of being squeezed by differing guilts, no escaping – which is why it has been captured by my sieve-like memory.
365 Short Memories 