Back to School on The Poetry Bus!

We're going back to school today on the Big Yellow Poetry Bus with Karen, at Keeping Secrets.
Bagsy the back row with the bad girls.
All the other pupils can be found here: http://keepingsecrets-karen.blogspot.com/2010/08/catch-big-yellow-poetry-bus.html
I'm chasing my tail today, so see you all tonight.

Now I have many school memories, virtually all pleasant, but one of the earliest still makes me smile.
I had one glorious year at St Mary's free from my younger brother, and prayed hard that some devastating illness would afflict him so that he could not start. It wasn't exactly what happened, but a miracle occurred, none the less.

Sibling Rivalry

Sister Aiden is black and white.
She drives a red car, I love her.
Sister Aiden is black and white,
and she hates my little brother.

That day he swallowed a marble
THEN TOLD HER
she turned him upside-down
and slapped, hard.
The marble did not manifest.
Though he cried all day
she simply said,
These things too, shall pass.

Sister Aiden is black and white.
Sister Aiden is not my mother.
Sister Aiden is black and white,
she drives a red car, I love her.