Table Number One will be just the table nearest to the phone
Without Noeleen
The staff room will be just a staff room
Empty except for a couple of tired teachers failing endless essays with red biros
Without Noeleen
The white phone will ring continuously for one period
Unanswered
And the red phone will sit sadly alone
Unused
Even when it is not out of order
Without Noeleen
Staff lunches will arrive ten minutes before the end of lunchtime
And the bags will contain nothing but stale crusts of white bread
The urn will boil only when the coffee tin is empty or the sugar is finished or the milk is sour
And erotic statues and clay pipes will lie broken in cluttered ashtrays
Without Noeleen
The Multi-Purpose Room will be used only for one purpose
Form assemblies will become formless
The daily bulletin will be distributed once a week
And pigeons will roost in the pigeon holes
Without Noeleen
General assemblies will be held three times a day and will concentrate primarily on precise definitions of the areas of the body students are permitted to expose.
Without Noeleen
Functional English classes would cease to function
Woodwork classes wouldn't work
And Drama classes would rehearse nouns and verbs and act out multiplication tables.
Without Noeleen
Phil Cleary will lose his theoretical perspective and become a pragmatist
Frank Salaman will renounce Marx and cigars, become a capitalist, and buy his own cup
And Anton will sit quietly in a corner hoping someone will speak to him
Without Noeleen
Ken Jiggins will become a radio announcer
Fred Kendall will become Coordinator of Spelling
Rex Cairns, his mind clouded by alcohol, will abdicate in favour of Mike Barker
Eric Thomas will persuade Doug Clymo to join the VSTA
Richard Szreniawski will announce the Aims and Objectives of General Studies
And there will be no more sunshine at Sunshine West
Without Noeleen