Polytechnic High School - Caerulea Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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A Tribute fFirst Prize Serious Poem, This poem was written to the memory of General Byers commander-in-chief of the rebelling Boers in the South Afri- can Civil War, who sacrificed his life for the lost cause.- Editor. It is a world of seemingg The changeless moon seems changing ever, The sun sets daily, but sets never. So near the stars, and yet so farg So small they seem, so large they are, It is a world of seeming. And so it seems that he is dead, But seems so only, for instead His life is just begun. He lives, Though e'en the cold hard earth His noble form no shelter gives, While he, unseen to mortal eyes, Now waves the victor's banner in the skies, Beyond this world of seeming. A WILLIAM TE GROEN Twelve

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The l'lHll'CU Go on, you little kinky headed coon, said jimmy Carter, aged twelve, curly headed himself, and very fat. You jes' let yo' maw boss you roun' like Punch done to Judy. You aint got no spunk 'tall. Fo'teen yeahs ole and long kinky hair like a gal. Ef it was me, l'd chop mine off'n wif a axe ef l couldn't git rid of it no other way. Yehl chimed in Robby Smith, Jimmy's especial friend. Ef my maw tried to boss me roun' like yourn, l'd show her sumpthinf Jes' look what I clone the other day. My maw tried to whip me an' l run away an' when I come back she clidn't do nuthin' 'tall. This conversation took place in jimmy Carter's back yard under a large mulberry tree, where Jimmy and his friends were accustomed to gather on many afternoons for the pur- pose of teasing and tormenting the life out of Rastus Bosmun. But why did all the boys tease Rastus? Why for this simple reason. Rastus' mother, Edith Bosmun, commonly known as Aunt Edy, had many peculiar traits of character and among them a passion for long hair. As her hair would never grow any longer than three or four inches, despite the fact that she used many and 'diverous' kinds of hair tonics, she de- termined to make up for her lack of head covering by making her son appear with locks which might well have become a girl, but for a boy-well to use Jirnmy's expression, lt sho' was comical. And on account of his mother's passion, Rastus' life was one of torment and sadness. He begged and pled with her to cut it off, but all in vain. She guarded it and cared for it as though it were a family heirloom. Moreover Aunt Edy ruled Rastus with an iron hand and being mortally afraid of her he had never dared to cut it off without her consent. So he lived on, hooted at by the boys and laughed at by the girls. And every afternoon he encountered the same crowd of boys under the big mulberry tree. Thirteen