To you who write my dreams ,I give my thanks
Please, not at my old school with wet pants
I do not want to get a prize again
Nor wonder how I differ from Big Ben
I do not wish to enter maths exams
With questions on straight lines that run like trams
Nor draw a graph of lost ellipse on ice
Nor study any science needing knives
I do not wish to sit on a hard chair
I’m 97 though I say my prayers
I’d rather dream of Langdale Pikes in snow
How to send a message? I don’t know
How befriend a writer we can’t see
Or more important, who will befriend me?
