After Echo and the Bunnymen

by Maria Fischer

Image credit: Anna Jiménez Calaf on Unsplash

“All my... all my life revolves around laughter and crying,”  

Ian McCulloch sang to me in those late 80s days.  

I wonder if he knew I’d still be trying   

Decades later, to end the malaise overlying  

His Bunnymen and my teenage clichés.  

All my... all my life revolves around laughter and crying  

Even now, at fifty, with teenagers vying   

For their teacher’s attention, writing essays;  

I wonder if he knew I’d still be trying    

To grade those words and the echoes plying,  

My consciousness, a coffee, the cafes.   

All my... all my life revolves around laughter and crying  

And missing the guy in my dying  

Memories of high school dances and bouquets.  

I wonder if he knew I’d still be trying    

To find him, to serenade him, to put my lying  

To bed and my apologies in a new phrase:  

All my... all my life revolves around laughter and crying.  

I wonder if he knew I’d still be trying.     

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Maria Fischer

Maria Fischer is a mom of five, stepmom of two, and grandmother of two. She has a husband, as well, to help her wade through that madness. She teaches English at Joliet Catholic Academy and Adult ESL at both Joliet Junior College and Prairie State College. Are you sensing a theme here? She can be reached at mfischer@jjc.edu to discuss both being stressed and being satisfied.