Guidance office, Senior year
the whole place resonates with fear and uncertainty
They say these times define your identity
Which is why,
They insist we sit down and evaluate
Exactly what you want to do when you graduate.
In an office done up plain,
We sit down to pick my brain
“What do you want to do?
Is there anything you’d like to be?”
She asks with the patience of person paid to give guidance to high schoolers.
But, I know exactly how to respond.
“James Bond” I say.
My assurance could be wearing a tuxedo
its so suave.
But I’m reciprocated with a scoff.
Her face is unamused and answer corresponds,
“You can’t major in James Bond.”
Not the answer I wanted to receive
But it doesn’t seem unreasonable.
To live and let die
as a british secret service spy
Armed with gadgets supplied by Q
An Aston Martin to pursue the enemy.
To fight villains bent on ending the world
Accompanied by a girl
as beautiful as she is ruthless.
The truth is,
I too want to sleep with copious amounts of women,
Drink cocktails garnished with twists of lemon
from fancy glasses.
Car chases through mountain passes.
To be the man of legends.
Of course, all that power can go to your head.
There’s a reason most Bond girls end up dead.
When your life is a plateau of success
Everything that might detract becomes excess.
Only lust, because love will impose.
Vesper Lynd, you were so close.
Perhaps shaken not stirred
Is more like a dream deferred
Than suitable life goal
Reality is rarely the knight in armour err… Tuxedo
But rather the anti hero.
The one who isn’t fighting evil and kind
but battling the grey area within their mind.
Never is life so cut and dry.
Like Catcher in the rye,
Finding Holden likeable was tough
but he was just learning to grow up.
Or Scarlet O’Hara,
Born with a silver spoon in her mouth
Then navigating her way through the war stricken south.
This is what life is about.
Don’t give into the archetype and cliché.
Of course if you want to fill your life with bad jokes and sexual innuendo
whatever thats okay
in fact I would encourage that.
But keep an eye out for plot twists
be a character who persists.
And when villains stop to explain their plans for world domination before they kill you
There is a good chance you’ll be able to undo whatever constraints you’ve been tied up in.
That’s not life advice, thats just common sense
She gets the joke but refuses to laugh, “Be realistic”
I think about education, travel, finding the unknown.
And say, "You know, I’ve always really liked Indiana Jones."
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