SCHOOL FIGHT.

Two schoolboys in a fight

How you got into a fight

with Woolgar in the school

 

playground God only knows

but it seems to stem from

 

him pushing into you and

knocking you against the wire

 

fence and then you rush at him

like a bull in a marketplace with

 

a flurry of punches catching him

high on the cheek with a tight fist

 

then a crowd gathers and an almost

perfect ring and on the periphery

 

out of the corner of your eye you

see them gathered excitedly chanting

 

loudly bundle bundle fight fight then

Woolgar put up his fists in front of

 

his face and you know instinctively

he’s no fighter that he’s not put

 

those fists up in a real fight and the

fire seeps from you and you move

 

your fists in the way you’d been taught

and duck and weave but you’re just

 

going through motions now and his eyes

widen in fear and you know you ought

 

to go off and leave him there as the

anger has almost gone then there’s

 

a shout of PREFECTS! and the audience

of eager schoolboys disperses and you

 

walk off into the crowd and Woolgar

drops his hands by his side and stares

 

up and out at the hills as if some voice

had called him like some ancient prophet

 

and the school prefects seeing nothing or

no one go off disgruntled and forget.