This is a scene from a novel I hoped to get published. But I've moved on now and am writing another book which will be published in 2020. Watch this space!
I really like the scene, though. So I thought I'd let you read it, rather than having it fester on my laptop.
Enjoy! It's very much based on my personal experience, and it's a scene that's played out in real life in many, many classrooms across the country. And perhaps the world.
Setting: a secondary school classroom, England. Friday afternoon. Characters: an English teacher and her class
The pupils, as they did every
week at this time, drifted from all corners of the school, in spits and spots
like a gradual, hesitant build-up of rain.
They
seemed weary, as did their end-of-the-week uniforms, which drooped and slouched
on their bodies as if drained of life.Indeed, some of their blazers had died and slidden off their bodies like
thin corpses, hanging now from the ends of their fingers. Several pupils had
risked …
I thought your poem was great
ReplyDeleteAnd I anxiously await
Your next one--you're so articulate
Just don't fall down!
Your poem was very funny
It was right on the money
So be very careful, Honey
And don't fall down!
Had me sniggering out loud. You're the Pam Ayres of the blogging world you are. And I mean that as a compliment.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if it's the fact that she IS so wasted that makes Amy Winehouse so fabulous?
ReplyDeleteIts a bit like Greenpeace and the National Trust- if they're doing it so well, then I have a clean consience about not having to do it myself!
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I'm not Amy's biggest fan, but then I admire the work of Pete Doherty...go figure. However, I am a Fran fan, and that poem was 'top drawer'.
ReplyDeletefishducky - thanks for your poetic comment!
ReplyDeleteSteve - I wouldn't have taken it any other way. Oi be thankin' you.
ted and bunny - I prefer her when I can hear the words, I have to say.
Martin H - Can the English say 'go figure' and get away with it?... But I'll forgive you, cause then you say 'top drawer' which is straight out of the English Gentlemen's dictionary.
Amy Winehouse has remained the sort of girl that the headmistress would sigh over , hasn't she ! Bless her .
ReplyDeleteI'm just glad she's not my daughter. Or indeed in one of my classes.
ReplyDeleteI nearly forgot all about Amy Winehouse.
ReplyDeleteSmitandSon - she has, she has, you're right. She'd be the one turning up late for assembly in high heeled red shoes and doing her mascara.
ReplyDeleteIsabelle - yes, imagine being Mummy Winehouse. Not good.
Amber - not easy!