Tolstoy sits down to watch Blind Date
Tolstoy asked, What do people do
round here on a Saturday night?
I yawned out, usually knackered,
so we watch a bit of telly.
His eyebrows furrowed quizzically,
he opened out the flats of his palms,
You work in a book shop, Peter?
I nearly say but, but he prods
the air with a tubby finger.
Does television give or take,
from life experience?
I toe my wife's line,
It's escapism, it's a laugh,
me, the man with no sense of humour.
It amuses my wife endlessly.
Later we spin large measures
of vodka, Tolstoy leans closer,
This Blind Date, Peter,
it makes time pass,
but puts it to no use, no?
round here on a Saturday night?
I yawned out, usually knackered,
so we watch a bit of telly.
His eyebrows furrowed quizzically,
he opened out the flats of his palms,
You work in a book shop, Peter?
I nearly say but, but he prods
the air with a tubby finger.
Does television give or take,
from life experience?
I toe my wife's line,
It's escapism, it's a laugh,
me, the man with no sense of humour.
It amuses my wife endlessly.
Later we spin large measures
of vodka, Tolstoy leans closer,
This Blind Date, Peter,
it makes time pass,
but puts it to no use, no?
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- North, The
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- Paper, The
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