The Last And

09.The Last And

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So, I'm the first one in again,

With the quiet and the window growing snow,

When I hear the furnace rouse itself

From its slumber, somehow suddenly I know,

As my eye stops on one curled up in my lesson plan

That I'm just your little ampersand.

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When your voice springs from the intercom

With announcements, and reminders, and a prayer,

I remember how you made me feel,

I was funny, I was thoughtful, I was rare,

But like the jokes about my figure

Kids think that I don't understand

I know I'm just your little ampersand

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After Christmas holiday

You never asked to drive me home again

Sometimes in the staff room I

Catch your eye with "why'd it have to end,"

But I know from how you worry at your wedding band

That I'm just your little ampersand

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At the last conjunction after every other and

I was just your little ampersand