At the small college I attended a big
thing was made of “Homecoming”
erever it fell during the season.
The football game had its emphasis
but mainly the festivity was of parties
and dances and especially a celebratory
bonfire: The year I was a freshman
it was a momentous occasion for
students hauled in from
the country a large two-holer,
well-built outhouse and balanced it
atop the pile. The fire was glorious
crowned with its magnificent (but
to the students outdated) item –
mer however, saw no humor and demand
ed recompense for his
purloined property. So shortly after
the students held a dance to raise
the moola; it was advertised as
“The Privy Polka.” The administration
however, made strong objections to this
title, so all subsequent publicity became
“The Homecoming Deficit Dance”!
2023 Jacqueline Jackson
This article appears in Dying and disabled Illinois prisoners.
