Varsity Blues
From time to time, I would write awful poems about love and longing. God, I wish I had kept those pieces. I'd publish them right now so we could all have a good laugh.
In 1977, Time Magazine featured my high school in an article named "High Schools Under Fire." It plays Marshfield like the set of a John Hughes movie, stating -
"a strict caste system separates the "jocks" (often children of the town's wealthier residents) and the "wall rats," so named because they once congregated along a wall behind the school to smok…
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