"Everyone's a friend of someone, Although it's plain to see, That every friend has got a friend, Who's not a friend of me."
Roger McGough writes and narrates the thoughts of a lonely boy looking for a friend in his new school. All around he sees friends and friendships, acted out by pupils of Speke
Comprehensive School. What with the betrayals, the jealousies and treacheries, it's not always an idealistic view of friendship but any friend is better than none if your feelings can be summed up like this:
"I'm boots without laces, I'm jeans without the zip, I'm lost, I'm a zombie, I'm a dislocated hip."
(R)