On Receipt of a Letter from the School Informing Us that....

[cameron]

...Headlice had been Discovered in the Class.

Sitting on the edge
Of the bath under a bright
Bulb, we groom ourselves
Meticulously like a
Troop of chimpanzees.

Cam

ps apparently they have headlice in the House of Commons now.

[Thomas]

It's true we originate from monkeys so the theory goes...
Grooming ourselves etc nice little piece Cam..Although i would say that they have more than headlice going on in the house of commons....LOL...
They would probably tax them aswell if they could..

Tom..

[pseud]

Enjoyed the image. It's hard to though - you're using the sort of language one finds in Haikus...umm...what am I trying to say?...basically, I suspect there's a form your using here, but I've not yet figured out what it is.

Could be wrong. Yes, could always be wrong.

- Caleb

[taliesin_the_poet]

They have headlice in the House of Commons? That's democracy for you...

But the poem - ahhh, the poem speaks of a time not so very long ago when the "nit-nurse" terrorised school corridors everywhere - when She wasn't a proprietory cold remedy, but an instrument of humiliation. Those were t'days...

And as I have to say I am far too young (at a tender 38) to have experienced said matronly menace first-hand, it speaks volumes of the poem that it should evoke in me memories which I never had. To misquote Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - such things are dangerous.

[taliesin_the_poet]

that should read a tender 38, not a tender 3... But I shan't throw my toys out of the pram over it.

[cameron]

Thanks gents. It's written in alternating lines of 5 and 7 syllables.

Cheers
Cam