Lincoln High School Marching Band

From the hot days of August the band goes
into the heat outside out onto the football field
marching beside the school.
BANG BOOM
To the neighborhood where it goes
BANG BOOM
until nine in the evening.

When the band marches, as in a new rhyme, forward,
BANG BOOM
into classrooms, leaving the football field
empty with fallen leaves and no percussion,
all lays quietly.

In October a gathering of bands come
trillng and banging.
BANG BOOM
The following silence
ghostly whispers fill the air arrives
when the bands go
low
into the hole.