TLOSGH - THE SCHOOL INSTITUTION

"Miss V Dunn MA, steadily

squeaking her chalk on the board.

was at large, was heard by the pupil

twinned to her double desk-

"snatched up a finger of chalk and jabbed

and slashed out a word. SILENCE."

"The hall was

a zoo"

"snow iced the school

like a giant cake"

"It was a girl

in the third form"

" The windows tall and thin, sad with rain

like a long list of watery names"

Queen

Canute

"Essays on Cardinal Wolsey

lay unmarked on the floor"

"The bell rang. Nobody moved.

Nobody made a sound."

"lay her head on the table,

dizzy with lust"

"laughed it seemed

was on the curriculum"

"the empty school creaked and

sighed it's desks the small coffins of lessons"

"you girls have laughed

this school into the ground"

"Miss Batt slowly undressing

Fifi in the stockroom"