junior school in the 1950s
let me show you mine
four years
three streams
A B C
I was always in stream A
top class
six rows
I was always in the first row
six double desks
I was usually on desk three or four
never desk one
although I was once as I recall
sitting with Alan Rees
he was always on desk one
god he was boring
I preferred desk two
sitting with Wendy Redacted
I once showed her mine and she showed me hers
she lived in the second stone semi
up Redacted road
where the approved school was
in infants school I played with
Gloria Puttyfoot and Linda Clutterbuck
Gloria used to spin me at arm’s length
and helped me jump up onto the coal bunker
never saw them in junior school
even their glorious names didn’t help
they were Cs you see
small tributaries
small wonder small wonder
all water under the bridge to nowhere
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