Fall, 1995
First grade, dirty fingernails and dirty sneakers
standing at the board,
doing time
Fall 2005
High school, smoking in the parking lot
staring off into the distance,
looking for a sign
Fall 2015
Finishing the night shift, half awake
walking past his coworkers
trying to remember childhood
see, also--
https://weather.com/photos/news/liz-roll-abandoned-schools