Children's Poem - Best Friends

It’s Susan I talk to not Tracey,
Before that I sat next to Jane;
I used to be best friends with Lynda
But these days I think she’s a pain.

Natasha’s all right in small doses, 
I meet Mandy sometimes in town;
I’m jealous of Annabel’s poney
And I don’t like Nicola’s frown.

I used to go skating with Catherine,
Before that I went there with Ruth;
And Kate’s so much better at trampoline:
She’s a showoff to tell you the truth.

I think that I’m going off Susan,
She borrowed my comb yesterday;
I think I might sit next to Tracey, 
She’s my nearly best friend: she’s OK.

From The World’s Your Lobster. Published by Bloomsbury, 1998.