By Maria O’Rourke
Miss Boland burst the football
That came over the wall from the boys’ school,
Stabbing it with a knitting needle while the girls cheered.
You and I were well aware
The line of demarcation was not to be crossed
Though no one could figure out why.
You wanted to throw it back,
But Miss Boland had a precedent to set
Of indelible magnitude.
Today’s lesson on Lysistrata
In a country school yard,
Is a circle of girls round a deflated, red ball.
Lysistrata
Miss Boland burst the football
That came over the wall from the boys’ school,
Stabbing it with a knitting needle while the girls cheered.
You and I were well aware
The line of demarcation was not to be crossed
Though no one could figure out why.
You wanted to throw it back,
But Miss Boland had a precedent to set
Of indelible magnitude.
Today’s lesson on Lysistrata
In a country school yard,
Is a circle of girls round a deflated, red ball.
Lysistrata
Miss Boland burst the football
That came over the wall from the boys’ school,
Stabbing it with a knitting needle while the girls cheered.
You and I were well aware
The line of demarcation was not to be crossed
Though no one could figure out why.
You wanted to throw it back,
But Miss Boland had a precedent to set
Of indelible magnitude.
Today’s lesson on Lysistrata
In a country school yard,