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in biology
if you got the window desk
and squinted to your right
there was a rooks nest
you could watch them wheeling
like high nuns

history was the industrial revolution
when I didn't know the answers
I'd draw the person infront
you can't rub out biro
so it's a bit of a challenge

I still blench with fear at hearing French

I couldn't see the point
of decimals
a maths lesson
was won where my sums made a pretty pattern

one April Fools
the head of class said
before the geography test
write a story for a joke instead
I got an A in geography once

the aim of games seemed to me
that life could not be this bad again

library was nice
though it took me ages to realise
if Sister tore the pages out
someone kissed

English was strange
either things move you
or they don't
I was never any good at knowing why
asked to stand outside to cry
when we did a Wilfred Owen poem

I couldn't even compose myself