AN APPLE FOR TEACHER
my mistress is strict
she disdains my advances
love songs I write her for English homework
are ill requited with an average mark
she's too demure
to countenance my onanistic fantasies
deflowering her on my
desk during lunch-break
making love in the stockroom
amid immortal English Literature
all very educational
we talk of nothing but set texts
& the impending examination
yet she excites an interest in the subject
as if she’s trying to tease & test my sex
I'd be a mug & sap like mad
to be the teacher's pet her model pupil
her classroom is my sanctuary
weekends & vacations banish me
perhaps a zealous student would request
some after-school tuition
chance to discuss love's syllabus in depth
perhaps I should
were it not for a sneaking suspicion
a member of staff in the science department
is plotting her graph
