Franco's
Where I am enclaved
wasting this Holy Thursday
devouring lan Gibson’s Lorca,
a pasta-twirl
or a
Parma-ham pizza
With its ripe polished olive at the centre of everything.
EVERYONE KNOWS
PINCUS ROSE
FOR SMARTEST CLOTHES
Ian Gibson? Pincus Rose? Lorca?
Who decides on the name of a gas
or the Sea Of Tranquillity?
His voice is so deep it provided the lining for his shoes.
Where else could one discuss
rare groove,
the etymology of ‘by Jove’
or the prose style of Contre Sainte-Beuve
with the waiters face and jacket as white as coral?
I am wondering if he will guess the name
of the man in the ‘loose author’s tie’
who defied authorities’ noose
and found his own Gethsemane
in an olive-grove
when a Rasta-girl
breaks from the impatient queue with a view to
my pizza’s black-hole, my cappuccino’s Saturn-ring.
‘Do you mind if I step into your grave?’
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