The Girl I'd Love

The girl I'd love
To sit near?

The girl I'd like
To tease?

The girl I'd share
My lunch with?

The girl I'd choose
To please?

Her name
Is not Diana

Her name
Is not Suzanne

Her name
Is not Griselda

Her name
Is not Joanne

The girl I'd love
To sit near

The girl I'd choose
To please

Teaches us
Mathematics

Her name
Is Ann Louise

Pinkerton-Smythe
(Miss)


(And do you know what, dear reader, I grew up and...didn't marry her)

Copyright Bernard Young, from Double Talk, Hands up Books, 2011