chocolate bar
What was going through her mind?As my friends paraded up and down
The long dormitory
(With flashlights for spot lights
In cut-off rolled up shorts and button-down shirts
Modeling home clothes
Slipping on and off
Borrowed shoes between girls)
Starting first from the bathroom
All the way down to the end of the hall.
The smartest girl in class
Who spent evenings
After lights out
Underneath her blanket
With a flashlight
Reading Hannibal Runs Away.
She must have ignored
Thought it all too frivolous
Girls’ stuff
She had outgrown.
As I remember the day
When the class results came in
She was a mere second or third
Someone else had been first
And she ha-rumphed off in anger
A chorus following:
"What's wrong Kelly?"
Kelly Nightingale,
Who had glasses by the fourth year.
The teacher gave out chocolate bars
To the top 3
Cadbury's I remember
For how could I forget
When Kelly was off
Red-in-the-face
Mad about slipping
All I could think about
Was that I was getting a Cadbury's chocolate bar.
2:35 AM | |
