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Pre-reading
1.	Skim the poem to find out what happens.
During reading
2.	While you read more slowly, see what you can pick up “between the lines” about the sort of person the speaker is and why she feels so happy when the boy gives her a radiant smile.

busstop

Michele Freind

i saw a nice boy

with long sideburns

and short hair and a blue suit.

he stood in front of me in the bus queue.

when the bus came

he stood back

to let me climb into the bus in front of him.

i turned to thank him

he gave me a radiant smile

it warmed my heart and made my day beautiful.

and then (wrapt in a haze of rosy dreams)

i tripped

and fell into the bus

flat on my stupid face.

sideburns – hair grown down the side of a man’s face. (It was considered “cool” to havethese sideburns!)

wrapt –poetic way of writing wrapped

haze – light mist

rosy – romantic

Post-reading
3.	Why do you think the speaker does not give us the name of the boy?
4. a)	The speaker says she was “wrapt in a haze of rosy dreams”. What do you think these dreams were about?
b)	Are we intended to laugh at what happened to the girl? Can you pick up the clue in the last line which shows that she is laughing at herself?
5.	Can you think of a reason why there are no capital letters and there is very little punctuation in this poem?