Inclement Weather

 

On rainy mornings before going to school 

my mother fearful that I should catch a cold

Insisted that I was well wrapped up

in black wellington boots, a yellow waterproof and a sou´wester

 

I loathed this garb as it made me stand out

for which I became an object of ridicule

One nasty boy with curly hair called Dinger Bell

said that I resembled a ´Fisherman´s Friend ´  

 

Through driving rain I would arrive at school

as if I had disembarked from a fishing trawler

I needed no identification for the register

everyone knew I had just left my moorings

 

I pleaded not to wear this awful clothing

I preferred a gaberdine raincoat instead

Mother was adamant, quite intransigent

so I became known as Lozenge, the

Fisherman´s Friend