By: Jessica Schlueter and Kaci Noyes

Have you ever had someone walk into your life and change you forever? Have you ever had an event happen in your life that you will never forget? Have you ever known or met someone that you will never forget? Write about a time that someone WRITING PROMPT

I will never forget my 5 th grade teacher Mr. Chris Ellis. I haven’t seen him in 2 years but I still remember his Diet Coke obsession and his best friend Mr. Yorg. I will never forget my old cheer coach Fernando because he taught me a lot and I was really close to him.

It was Labor Day weekend I was seventeen I bought a Coke and some gasoline And I drove out to the County Fair And when I saw her for the first time She was standing there in the ticket line And it all started right then and there Oh a sailor's sky made a perfect sunset And that's a day I'll never forget… “SOMETHING LIKE THAT”

I had a barbecue stain on my white t-shirt She was killing me in that mini-skirt Skippin' rocks on the river by the railroad tracks She had a sun tan line and red lipstick I worked so hard for that first kiss A heart don't forget something like that. “SOMETHING LIKE THAT”

It was five years later on a south-bound plane I was headed down to New Orleans, To meet some friends of mine for the Mardi Gras When I heard a voice from the past Coming from a few rows back When I looked I couldn't believe just what I saw She said I bet you don't remember me, And I said only every other memory. “SOMETHING LIKE THAT”

I had a barbecue stain on my white t-shirt You were killing me in that mini-skirt Skippin' rocks on the river by the railroad tracks You had a sun tan line and red lipstick I worked so hard for that first kiss A heart don't forget something like that. Like an old photograph Time can make a feeling fade But the memory of the first love Never fades away “SOMETHING LIKE THAT”

I had a barbecue stain on my white t-shirt She was killing me in that mini-skirt Skippin' rocks on the river by the railroad tracks She had a sun tan line and red lipstick I worked so hard for that first kiss A heart don't forget, no a heart don't forget I said a heart don't forget something like that Oh, not something like that. “SOMETHING LIKE THAT”

Their Basic Savagery Fat black bucks in a wine- barrel room, Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, Pounded on the table, Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom, Hard as they were able, Boom, boom, Boom, With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom, Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom. THE CONGO THEN I had religion. THEN I had a vision. I could not turn from their revel in derision. THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK, CUTTING THROUGH THE JUNGLE WITH A GOLDEN TRACK. Then along that river-bank A thousand miles Tattoed canibals danced in flies; Then I heard the boom from the blood-lust song And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong. And “BLOOD” screamed the whistles and the fifes of the warriors, “BLOOD” screamed the skull-faced, lean witch- doctors, “Whirl ye the deadly voodoo rattle, Harry the uplands, Steal all the cattle, Rattle-rattle, rattle-rattle Bing! Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom,”

A roaring, epic, rag-time tune From the mouth of the Congo To the Mountains of the Moon. Death is an Elephant, Torch-eyed and horrible, Foam-flanked and terrible. Boom, … Like the wind Hoo, Hoo, Hoo. THE CONGO

“Something Like That” relates to The Congo because in both the poem and the song they talk about someone or something that changed them, and they never forgot about it. This is important to teens today because in life you meet many people you will never forget.