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Sometimes I watch the '70's movie 'Cooley High' in reverse Because for me the ending is the worst. I figure if I view it backwards, the main character Cochise can rise up and be with his friends, Preach and Pooter and the boys could all have fun cutting classes and joy riding and throwing caution to the wind. The guys could all go to quarter parties, prom and graduate, They'd stand on the corner and sing and drink cheap wine and never meet such a twisted fate. Then Martha wouldn't have had to raise that hatchet, The two women that Chise and Preach duped wouldn't have a habit. Their teacher, Mr. Mason wouldn't have wasted his breath or his time, Preach's girlfriend, Brenda wouldn't have fallen for a line-- Of poetry and pure testosterone, And the two villains Robert and Stone Would slide back into their holes and no one would know where they are, And the world wouldn't lose another ghetto super star. Cochise could get his basketball scholarship to college and go on to make Chicago proud, He'd be ranked up there with Michael Jordan somewhere in the clouds. But I am dreamer... Yep, sometimes, I watch the movie Cooley High in reverse, Because I'd rather see Cochise having fun than lying in a hearse.
