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Ken Champion

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Teachertalk

Victorian town hall. Colonial masturbation;
Ionic capitals, swags, tongue and dart
and pedagogic Inspector lady with too much make-up
putting aitches in front of aitches
while I eagerly await the buzz words of Edu-biz.

But, smiling simplicity.
No provision of disparate subject modules,
no quantifiable non arbitrary criteria of
resource-based parameters and why no
pro-active focusing and why did you
slam out of the house this morning
screaming that you were never real to me
and that I intellectualise everything when

of course I don't And now we're off to
Beefeaterharvester land where tatooshouldered
Essex mangirls cackle into mobiles
and skins with beemers chardonnay on about
the A12, mini-heart and dolphin earrings jingling
as they strut, sitting down, at the bar
and an old man with a Los Angeles Raiders
baseball cap bores on about his caravan, and
your deep eyes imploring me to join in. and
stop observing and why don't I see you and

I wonder if you'll still be there
when I get home.

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