EDUCATION - scored in triplicate -

meaning wage-elevation through sponsored

cramming, telegraphically assessed

by barcode reader. What distills attainment

from accomplishment? Must we enhance

our bride-price by attending typing school?

Brave of you to bunk off and go marching:

I wouldn’t have; wrote poems in free periods

instead, or bandied gay rights with the C.

U., citing celibates’ vocation.

Those who can’t, make policy. Enframe

teen heroine in sketch of cordoned dust-up -

defence claims schoolgirl rioters hormonal,

depraved by music, possibly heartbroken.