Central High School - Cog N Pen Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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THE BUGS (With apologies to Edgar Allan Poe) See the many, many bugs— Buggy bugs! How they flutter through the twilight, causing us ex- cited shrugs. How they rustle. rustle, rustle, In the dreamy air of night; Flipping. flapping on the highway, Booming, buzzing on the byway, Under each electric light. How they dip, dip, dip! How they zip, zip, zip! Till they whisk about our whiskers and go-mugging at our mugs! Oh the bugs, bugs, bugs! Oh, the bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs! Oh the night is two shades darker than the bugs, All the sorts and kinds of bugs! Fuzzy bugs! Bugs that humbly beg your pardon, bugs that throw on lugs! How they flutter, flutter, flutter, Til some lady gives a shriek, Fill she clutches at her bonnet, Shouting that a bug is on it For she felt it climb her cheek, How they wing, wing, wing! How they sing, sing, sing! The mosquitoes and the beetles, and each buzzy, buggy thing, Oh the bugs, bugs, bugs! Oh the bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs! There’s a million miles of breeze containing bugs. There are June and lady bugs! Whiskered bugs! There are bats, fleas and locusts, there are moths in search of rugs. Bugs that hurt like a missile! Bugs that roar and bugs that whistle; Bugs in many colors tinted; Bugs (but let that be not hinted). And they hold a big convention under each electric light. Oh the bugs, bugs, bugs! Oh the bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs! What a buzzy, buggy, bumping bunch of bugs! — Mary Kula. ON TEACHERS Some teachers are easy, others hard; (Or so it seems by a student's card). However, let us drop the chatter; And find out just what is the matter. First, do the pupils do their work? Well, some of them do, the others shirk. Secondly, are they very attentive? No, although they've every incentive. Then, do they try to co-operate ; And help all they can when teacher's late? No, but they can make plenty of noise— And this includes both girls and boys. Are they obedient on every occasion; Or perhaps they incline toward aggravation? The latter condition is generally found; As everyone knows, who has been around. Now, all these things in a teacher’s life, Tend to make him as sharp as a knife; And the students whose fault it is, Act as though the offense was his. —-Raymond Apgar.