A poem for my friends in Dating Advice.
Her latest flameMy sister drags her boyfriends home to meet us
Subjects them all to family scrutiny
They disappear for hours up in her bedroom
Then disappear forever after tea
Where loveÂ’s concerned, Ella is like a Mountie
Fierce and direct, she always gets her boy
Dad says that she’s a ‘shameless little hussy’,
Dumping each suitor like a broken toy
Ella canÂ’t see what we all find so funny
Boys are like fish to her, thereÂ’s plenty more
Love is a game to girls like Ella
Perhaps itÂ’s because sheÂ’s only four
Lindsay Macrae