Alone, Leslie Ann takes a more subtle approach,
Since high school, she’d learned her lesson well.
There she believed she’d acquired loyalties for life.
Now on this journey; all friendships she would dispel.
 
Her parents kissed their only child a woeful good-bye.
And watched rather sadly for not a tear did she shed.
She smiled, revved her engine and shifted into gear,
She thought about the possibilities that lay just ahead.
 
Like a whirlwind, the first few months flew by calmly.
That gave Leslie Ann time to consider her terrain.
When several girls merrily offered their friendship,
She smiled weakly; she’d not travel that road again.
 
Guys pursued her and made their intentions known;
But Leslie Ann ignored them as she awaited her fate.
Six months later, she found him, handsome and alone,
Waiting at a bus stop just outside the dormitory gate.
 
He was waiting for the bus that long and chilly night,
Wearing  an old coat whose elbows were threadbare,
Most of his money supported his wife and two children.
Earnings from two jobs was barely enough for their welfare.
 
Leslie Ann parked her red Mercedes-Benz slk 250 roadster,
And walked through the University’s gate as the bus nears.
She wants him badly, so she pulls out her personal card,
And sticks it in his book that was hulking with rabbit ears.
 
Dumbfounded, the young man timidly fingered the card
As his thought ran wild, the University was letting him go.
He didn’t understand; he'd given his all to his students,
They even called him at home; he couldn’t take much more.
 
Jonathan and his wife sat brainstorming way into in the night.
No matter how they squared it the money just wasn’t there.
Five more months of work and six months of severance pay,
Then they’d have to pack and move to find work elsewhere.
 
The next day while leafing through his class’s chemistry book,
A card fell out with photo and phone number of a Miss Mill.
He stared at the beautiful face for a few minutes, wondering
Did he owe her? His life seemed defined by tears and bills.