GEOMETRY SET CASE

With immense fondness
I'm reminded of
Sweet, callous days
Spent in packed classes
With jolly comrades
In the holy institution
Of a celebrated saint.
Where once along winter
The master introduced
Principles of geometry
And required the next day
A geometry set case
On our wooden desks
As prerequisite to the lesson

Upon school next day
To my left, to my right
Flashed shiny instruments
Of Faber Castle or Camlin blood
Causing sweet cacophony
With an animated reverb
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While some mutt set cases
Of unheard names and faces
Failed forever to
Derive the correct angles
Not then, not now, not ever
For not lack of quality
But due to trembling complex

-K.G.