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Andrew Ferri started writing in second grade.

It was his first fraud.

He stood tiptoed at the wooden podium so he could see over the top. The American flag waved heroically behind him and he turned to watch the stars and stripes promenade across the bluest April morning sky.

The warm wind whispered to Andrew Ferri that it’s” going to be okay,” but, he felt like a vulture on a perch atop a telephone pole, observing its next meal take its last gasp; all through the corrective lenses of a lumpy second grader with very bad eye site.

Andrew Ferri was a student at W.S Mount Elementary and the flag day poetry contest winner. Andrew Ferri the “Outlaw Poet!” Andrew Ferri the “Experimental Shark!” No, that won’t do; Andrew Ferri “the boy whose mother did his homework.” It was her opus.

The audience stood and clapped and Andrew Ferri adjusted the microphone, looked up and saw his mother proudly siting, and smiling, like Princess Diana at a piano recital for orphan children injured by claymore mines.

Thank you for reading “About Me.”