What lovely books you have won
My congratulations to you all
I see you like Dickens Clive
Charles Sir
And you like Miss Austin Annie
She is so like you
But Sir I am not a virgin
You stole it from me last zummer
James Maxwell Smith
What a fine mind you have
Oxford or Cambridge awaits you
I am happy here Sir
We all are Smith but we have to leave one day
(either in a coffin or straight to prison)
No whispering in the ranks please School
How do you think these fine pupils
Have reached this podium
(up the stairs then follow your nose)
See me in my bath afterwards Burton
What book have you chosen James
Chaucer Milton or Shakespeare I hope
No Sir it is a book by a Polish chap
Conrad
A fine man
It is not Conrad
Then who
G.A.B
And the title of this grand prize
Do share it with the school
How to Play Erotic Card Games in the Nude
(general titters accompanied by first year farts)
Life and Death at St Wihtburh’s (1934)