August "Gus" Cohen

New Places

New school, trying to meet new friends

Missing old friends and being friends with the 6th graders

Meet Jackson, One week later after talking for a week straight

Playing soccer on the field during lunch recess

No one talks to us but we don't care,

We meet Palmer and Henry they are nice and help us in tough times

I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep. But I can't, but I can't when you all have guns for hands,

Making jokes about the score

Sitting down during lunch

Hearing people make fun of us because we made jokes

Kids punching each other during tag

Getting pushed into a tree

Seeing people being punched in the back

Hearing screams of my classmates

Being escorted to the dean's office

I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep. But I can't, but I can't when you all have guns for hands

Asking if this was the first time

Telling the pain they caused

Hearing that he got suspended

Watching him leave the school hearing people celebrate

Him being forced to leave the school

Eating together unbothered

I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep. But I can't, but I can't when you all have guns for hands

The beginning in California

Finding the beaches of California

Watching surfers doing aerials and being barreled

Being all over but the best are in California

Grandparents moving from Minnesota

Meeting at the University of California

Sneaking out of Russia

meeting at the liberation of Paris then moving to California

Knowing there is only one home

In Los Angeles California

Watching snow fall

In mammoth lakes up in Northern California

Driving all over our states just to find the perfect dog

in no other than Victorville, California

Father, father going every other week

all the way up to San Francisco, California

Flying in from Japan

to one of the largest airports in California

Seeing this city change but stay the same

All in the best city Los Angeles, California