The convent
K.V.SRIKANTH 1969 (Tamil Nadu)
Brother had graduated
With distinction
Easily obtained
Kindergarten Admission
Already done
Started good
At another school
With A thatched roof
Father Rector
Vaguely remember.
English Language Skills
Written and spoken
Was the intention
For a Convent Education
The first school
Just off the ground
Hop skip and jump
From home
Virtue in Difficulty
Motto enforced with authority
Back of beyond
The oven a bear to clean
The school of hard knocks
14 years
Hornets Nest
4 year kid
Put to test
Every year
A cross to bear
Every teacher
A nightmare
Atmosphere Anxious
Psychosis cheek by jowl with
Feel the heat
Skip a beat
Learn it all
Before you are 3 feet tall
Every Monday
Cloud on the Horizon
Tuesday
Better left unsaid
Wednesday
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Thursdays
Hammer and anvil
Fridays
Thank god it is
Discipline and Education
Was the Motivation
Real or Mask
I'm yet to Unmask
Boys Ranked
Made to feel inferior
Fail a subject
Humiliate Parent
For kid not being perfect
Boys branded
Humiliation indidnity
Insult to injury
Nuremberg trials shorter
Silently stand there
Standard Convent fare
Provocative Attire
By the teacher
Didn't make matters better
Students imbibed earlier
Than required by law of nature
Sexuality brazen
Ahead of the curve
Gradation of Perversion
Affected permanently
Mental stability
View of women
Totally in contradiction
Damaged forever
Lasted till wedlock
Wedlock did not last
No room for sth
Beyond the pale
A square peg in a round hole
Puritanism produced swivel eyed zealots
Pursued their mania with little sense of proportion
Higher classes
No better
Tight leash
Grip never eased
Termination threatened
Repeat a year warned
Having to endure
Performance preasure
Nervous breakdown
Not uncommon
Common in classes
Standard 10 and Twelwe
Every day a living hell
Spare the rod
Spoil the child
Idiom for conduct
In this school invented
Untidy Attire
Consequences dire
Late to school
Flatten your soul
Talk in class
Break you like glass
Tarnished shoe
Wrist turns blue
Study material
Not in order
No escaping the clobber
Time at Alcatraz
A Concert of Jazz
Holidays a parole
Graduation day
Jackrabbit Parole
Diesel ride
No more required
Fourteen years
Buck Rogers time
Rigorous Relentless
Souls broken
With precision
Served Bum Beef
At the Cuckoos Nest
Doing the Dutch
Break Fluids
Considered once
Watch the wind or
Bark at the Moon
World weary
Experience equals
That of a
Vietnam Vet
Faced many a bullet
But we at the convent
Had to endure
Nurse Ratched
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Submitted by K.V.Srikanth on January 31, 2021
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