Mr Korsky brought his nephew Nigel to school
to help him because poor Mr Korsky
has to wear a neck brace for another week,
you know,
after the unfortunate flying Jacob incident.
Nigel has a nose ring,
two earrings
and an eyebrow ring.
He also has a tattoo of a snake
slithering up his arm
and when he flexes his bicep
it looks like the serpent is about to strike.
He showed all of Year Six this trick at lunchtime
when he was emptying the rubbish bins.
Nigel says he used to come to this school
ten years ago
and he tried to jump off the shed as well
only he wasn’t flying;
he was ambushing
his worst enemy, Mark Banbridge.
He told us about Mark
and some girl called Robyn
and how Mark
shouldn’t have got so friendly with her.
I swear when he was talking
the tattoo on his arm grew bigger and meaner,
and I moved to the outside of the circle,
just in case.
Cameron asked Nigel
if getting all those piercings hurt
and Nigel said,
‘Nah, the only thing that hurt was my eardrums.’
‘Eardrums?’ I asked.
‘Yeah. You should have heard the noise
Dad made when he saw all my rings!’