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Terry Collett
Poems
Jun 2015
MOZART AND JOHN 1962
Elaine sat in class.
She'd seen John
on the bus, but he
had not looked over
at her, but gazed out
the window, sitting
beside the boy Trevor.
She looked back and
he was sitting at back
of class with a boy
called Rowland, he
looking at some book
the boy was showing him.
Once the pupils were
all there Miss G took
the register calling out
the names. Elaine wished
John was beside her at her
desk; wished he was talking
to her not the Rowland boy.
She sat uneasy, her body
plumpish, her glasses smeary
needing cleaning. Miss G
talked about music; about
Mozart; about his piano
works and put on a LP and
the pupils sat arms folded
or hands over faces listening
-or not- to the unfolding
Mozart music piece. Her sister
talked of boys over breakfast;
what so and so had done and
where and their mother had said
NOT AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE
loudly but did boys really sniff
after girls as her sister had said?
Elaine never heard John sniff her.
He had kissed her that day, but
not sniffed-thank God- and she looked
at Miss G as the music played away.
A GIRL AND HER THOUGHTS ONΒ Β A BOY IN CLASS IN 1962
#girl
#boy
#kids
#school
#1962
#mozart
Written by
Terry Collett
Sussex, England
(Sussex, England)
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