Montage in Sepia
They told us yesterday
that today tomorrow’s colour had been
orange, yellow, blue and indigo
Violet, always an erstwhile contemporary,
slopping kinetic coffee in a
cubist sandwich bar, now so passe,
my love, over a limp salad and a
scattering of anchovies conveyed
exactly the mood we all strove to
recapture when nostalgia was still
quite the thing.
Really it was
quite the place while it still was,
though now one gets served so much quicker
and quicker, as though there was something
we must urgently finish, although as I’ve told you,
we never got anything started, or was it
the cocktail - the prawn cocktail -
no, relatively sober since the marriage,
sometimes a quick one of an evening,
or just a limp salad, a scattering of anchovies,
freedom of sorts, a freedom one might have predicted
‘with the moon in Leo, and cousin Doris
knocking on the wainscote, it all seems now
as if a cardigan button could hold together
Mum Dad Gran Elsie Doug Steve Marge and Davie
and the man we went to last time to enlarge the snaps.
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