Clarinet, Michael Estabrook

I guess if I think about it

for a moment,

I have to admit

that I am not proud

of the fact that in high school

I played the clarinet

in the marching band.

Would have preferred to have been

an athlete, playing football, basketball,

baseball or soccer,

instead of playing the clarinet

in the marching band.

If I could have continued even

in gymnastics,

at that time not the manliest of sports,

rather than have that pesky dorsal lumbar

spinal fusion surgery

that changed my life forever,

it would have been so much better

for me psychologically, I think.