Thinking Back on Polly

Thinking Back on Polly

Polly left school at

fifteen,

even before she

had time

to take her exams ..

It seems

asthma got to her

on the way home,

on the top

deck of an old red

school bus ..

They say, she died

alone up there ..

But how

on earth, was that

even possible ..

After all, it was a

school bus

for Christ’s sake ..

No one even knew

she had

f*****g asthma,

or how bad it was ..

And I sometimes

imagine if she had

not left us

early like that, then

we might have

got it together again

and maybe, one day

even have fallen in love ..