One-liners: Deformalize

Recently I needed quick hack for following situation. Given an input like this:

A 1
A 2
B 3
C 4
C 5
C 6
C 7
D 8

I wanted to generate following:

text A -p 1 -p 2
text B -p 3
text C -p 4 -p 5 -p 6 -p 7
text D -p 8

After some thought I have generated it with this awk one-liner.

cat file | awk '{ if (X==$1) { printf " -p "$2 ; } else { printf "\ntext " $1 " -p "$2 ; X=$1 } }'

What would you do? Is there an easier way ?