You are about to learn the lyrics of my best song (so far) Smile.

Mister McNamara took his class to the hall for the regulation photos of the kids in his form.

He was hot, he was bothered-he remembered every minute of the mess last year.

The photographer was shaking-

He was running out of luck.

Like a possum in the headlights of a homicidal truck.

he was bruised and confused,

like a body at the bottom of a ruck.

And he said

Smile! Make your mum feel proud.

Smile! In amongst the crowd

Then you can't be ordinary.

Smile! Like a movie star.

Smile! And you might go far. And you'll get there

in style, if you just SMILE!

Chores

We played up fell down blew bubblegum.

While the girls made a line and the boys formed a scrum.

And Lene went ballastic-started swinging from the lights,

Like a skinny superhero (in very baggy tights)

Shane became a zombie and pretented to be dead,

With his finger up his nose and his undies on his head.

And Nicky painted faces with a felt tip pen

While someone picked the camera and coulered in the lens