Two Straight Madelines

curlicues perhaps the Catholic nun wouldn’t let me engage in penmanship shape “shape up, sit straight!!” yet the ancients would whirligig with their featherings fill up the page with their zorro-like signature tap-tap-tap the teacher’s brought me back to life, to engage in this ((yawn)) bor…ing admonish the swording don’t let me squander her time keep in step with the four wall attack windows of daydreams grow black march march march in two straight Madeline-s the feather tickles my digits my mind metamorphic the rhymes fantastic tap-tap-tap this time near my ear the fearsome whip that steers me into correction dear nun’s satisfaction i’ll get an A in penmanship but conduct - can’t shut me up