TLOSGH - Miss Nadimbaba

reciting the poet Laureates for Miss Nadimbaba

John dryden, Thomas Shadwell, Nahum Tate

Miss Nadimbaba, no fan of rock and roll

could scarcely belive her ears

each would politely enquir after

her colleagues invisible half

Miss nadimbaba dreamed she knelt to Miss Barrett on her couch and she, Miss nadimbaba

was browning, saying Beloved be my wife

Miss Nadimbaba ws teaching the poems of Yeats to the fifth

when the girls in the orchestra laughed

She held in her hands the poem which had made her a scribbler of

verse at twelve or thirteen

she stared at the girls in her class who

were starting to shake

Miss Nadimbaba churned the closing couplet

of a poem in her head

Miss Nadimbaba put down her pen and read

through her poem

she altered a verb and the line jumped on the psge like a

hooked fish