Miss. Lock Memories
Don’t ask me what year it was
I just can’t recall it
but I do remember her name ..
Oh’ yes, and those legs of course
and the liberty-cap hairstyle
she wore all through term time
which someone
once told me was cut, by a fella
they all for some reason
or other, called Vidal Sassoon ..
Although, to be fair
if I am totally honest, I also recall
the length of her skirts,
that were in fact, no length at all ..
Yes, those were
the main things I most clearly
remember about dear Miss Lock,
my first love
and primary school teacher ..
Who by the way,
taught me my alphabet, and then
later to read ..
Indeed, on her birthday I once
wrote her a poem
and she did thank me with a blush
plus a kiss on the cheek ..
And boy, did I come over all funny
and never washed
the whole of my face for a week ..
But of course,
that was years back and how things
have changed ..
Some say I am older and wiser maybe
I still feel a kid tho
and my knees invariably go weak ..
When I think of
Miss Lock and that kiss on the cheek ..