JUST BECAUSE YOU THINK IT’S GOOD DOESN’T MEAN IT IS:

 

In the music lesson we waited for our results to come on the radio.

The girls in the year below won with their Bongos & gdelicate voices,

 

“What shall I do?

I’ve got nowhere to go

Nobody loves me

No one wants to know…”

 

& then something about “…an electric cooker & fridge…”

 

I got the runners up prize, a record token to buy anything 

I wanted…for the school. I wondered how come both entrants from 

our school got first & second & if anyone else had bothered. At the 

record shop I found a lot’ve things I wanted & more whose sleeves 

promised exotic thrills, but none that were appropriate for school, 

then I found the classical section where the old blokes in tweed 

pondered sleeve notes. I got them a compilation of classical 

guitar recordings, it was actually really good. The music teacher 

smiled, 

 

“A very good choice” played it once & stuck it at the back of the 

cupboard.

 

(K)