An afternoon nostalgia

television show

you spoke in silhouette

(but they couldn't name you)

although the panel were

very polite to you

but I remembered you

from Friday nights 1969

ATV - you murdered every line

too old to be a child star

too young to take leads

four seasons passed

and they AXED you

nervously juvenile

(WON'T SMILE!)

What became of you?

did that swift eclipse torture you?

a star at eighteen

and then-suddenly gone

down to a few lines

in the back page of a teenage annual

oh but I remembered you

I looked up to you