Miss West

Miss West is a good English teacher.
She’s smart, but supremely uncool.
We call her “The Wicked Witch of the
West Glorydale Grove Grammar School.”

She hollers all day at her students.
It’s plain that Miss West hates our guts.
She always shouts, “Sherry! Stop talking!”
And, “Debbie! You’re driving me nuts!”

She grins when the school day is over.
She practically runs out the door.
Burns rubber and squeals onto Main Street.
Her pedal must be on the floor!

She’s crabby and mean and quite cranky.
(We pray that she won’t reproduce.)
She’s meaner than Mr. Orseno,
and harder on us than Coach Bruce!

Now, why would she choose to sell ice cream?
(add “clueless” to “crabby” and “mean”)
She sees us each day in the summer
at Glorydale Grove’s Dairy Queen!

by donna lee murphy
copyright 2006