Belmont High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Belmont, MA)

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We never looked around us, immersed in our books and bicycles Our swings in their weaving motions tied the earth and sky together and wrapped up our days in neat brown-paper-packages which we never opened. Those cold winter days- we went outside after lunch to stand in tight circles, more for warmth than company. We never once turned our heads to look about us. Underneath the radical sign, did we ever remember to free the four; that square-root four equals two, plus or minus. For better or for worse? Not even when our self-made prison was destroyed by hungry fire, did we melt the circle to warm ourselves at its feet. Instead, we tighter drew the ring, and substituted bunsen-burner flames feeding on man-made oxygen. But was it wrong, to wait? Should we have opened the package before Christmas? Would it be the same, without the long expectant years the wrapping paper made of tests passed and failed, of report cards and football games? They made the gift seem better Because of the waiting. Now we change our mini-skirts for thick robes twice their length. We cover up our Levi’s with identical shrouds. Now, we must cut the string, tear the paper, evaluate the four, to equal plus or minus two. And open the box F. Elizabeth Barry