Classic Poem

Father says if I go to kindergarten all alone
I shall have a velocipede …

So I go all alone: I don't know that nurse is just a little behind me …
I go alone, and spend hours in a dream, among alien children,
Frightfully little and strange and friendless …
Playing with blocks and bright coloured strips of paper …

“Teacher, may I go to the toilet?”
Yes, I may go … I wander about the Normal School basement, and find a door,
And enter … it is a toilet …

A gong sounds: there is a great feminine chatter: and in rush a clutter of High School girls …
They gather about me and giggle and button me up …

I am amazed, but not too amazed to know I got into the wrong place …