Best Friends

It’s Susan I talk to not Tracey,

Before that I sat next to Jane;

I used to be best friends with Lynda

But these days I think she’s a pain.

Natasha’s all right in small doses,

I meet Mandy sometimes in town;

I’m jealous of Annabel’s pony

And I don’t like Nicola’s frown.

I used to go skating with Catherine,

Before that I went there with Ruth;

And Kate’s so much better at trampoline:

She’s a showoff, to tell you the truth.

I think that I’m going off Susan,

She borrowed my comb yesterday;

I think I might sit next to Tracey,

She’s my nearly best friend: she’s OK.

Adrian Henri