one in eight children

May 31, 2016

one in eight children
are traumatized by
that early morning
realization of missing
the school bus. it
still sneaks into
our slumber, the
mechanical stop-
sign arm, that air
brake sigh, the
unmistakable
national school
bus chrome,
shrinking in
the distance
.
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Written by yi-ching lin Posted in art, life, personal, poetry, reflections, thoughts, writing Tagged with air-brake, alert, brake, chrome, dreams, late, miss, missing, morning, mornings, national school bus chrome, national school bus glossy yellow, nightmare, nightmares, realization, recurring, school, school bus, statistics, trauma, traumatized, yellow bus