Rusty gates and iron fences
Future, past and present tenses
Burning custard, sweaty socks
Creaking desks and dusty books
Playground fights and hullaballoo
Mud and blood, and bruising too
Smells and bells and girls and boys
Screaming, screeching, making noise
Exercise books, pen and ink
Body odours, what a stink
Back of the classroom passing notes
Behind the bike shed, crafty smokes
Useless shiny bog roll sheets
Dirty sinks and broken seats
Outdoor toilet wall confessions
Dinner queues, and queues for lessons
Compass, rubbers, rulers, pens
Peering through a microscope lens
Draughty rooms, cold corridors
After school club, robot wars
Squeaking chalk on an old blackboard
Lunchtime football (never scored)
Teacher shouting, no-one hearing
Detention: lunchtime disappearing
Homework lost, defacing signs
Writing essays, doing lines
Graffitied walls and other fooling
So much for all that formal schooling
Standing outside, waiting for the Head
Wanting to be anywhere else instead
Steve Wheeler © 12 March, 2021
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