Miss De Witt

Our High School Health teacher, Miss De Witt,

said: Take a good grip on the towel, both ends,

and use it like a rope on your back,

pulled back and forth, all over.

I think about this, getting out of the shower

sixty years on: What a queer old bird.

She walked up and down the aisles of our class,

regretting that someone had body odor.

It wasn't an easy subject to broach

(although it came up nearly every class).

Mercifully no one was identified, but

perhaps she managed to teach us all: we stink.