Ah you are right Max, being taught values at a price, all and always the
same values - prices vary together with the names, Methodist or Lutheran,
Catholic or ..., and behind _ well let's not go too deep for the sake of
decency, someone told me a very spicy one on the Nuns that monthly pay me.
Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com
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The aim of the poet is to awaken emotions in the soul, not to gather
admirers.
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
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Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 11:59 PM
Subject: snap 2 Feb
The New School Year
End of January: midsummer¹s hatchlings,
uniformed new-borns swarming across
these suburbs in patterned waves:
déjà vu armies, pale green, mauve, brown,
panama hats on some, kepis on others,
long socks on some, sandals on others;
back-packs weigh down most of them.
School¹s back in. You feel for them:
some are enjoying reunions
with mates the holidays had parted;
others feel returned to dread -
last year¹s ordeals are back, worse?
Morning-recess raucousness
spills across streets and whole blocks.
My friends who teach - shall I email them:
OBack in harness! How does it feel?
I¹m free!¹? The staff-room must be stifling.
Who¹s on yard duty? Did you see
the media spreads: OTeacher¹s Sex Romp¹? -
there but for the grace ofS. Keep
an eye on X, he¹s at mid-life,
newly separated, alone at home.
Some of those girls are dangerous.
They¹ll be sharing the clippings now,
naming the school Owhich cannot be named¹.
I drive on past some posh ones: St Bede¹s,
Fintona Owhere gels excel¹*, Trinity,
Xavier, Baptist this, Methodist that,
Erasmus, Scotch; beyond: Scopus, Luther,
Tintern S all teaching Values - at a price.
Now come the bullying four-wheel-drives
blocking the suburbs for an hour
while the posh mums take their darlings home.
28 January - 2 February 2005
[*the Fintona gate-sign says; 'Where Girls Excel']
Max Richards at Cooee, North Balwyn, Melbourne
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