Charles Christian
Haibun
Remembering Leeds University
Past the late night Warsaw stores at the end of the road, across the street from the Sikh temple by the traffic lights. Did the sign in that café really say only one fork per plate? Later, sitting around the kitchen fireplace, at the house we shared off the Chapeltown Road, we’d make French toast, drink cheap black coffee and watch unwanted lecture notes burn in the open grate, as we’d talk long into the night….about back-to-backs, Hunslett legs and the Quarry Hill flats.
You were reading medicine, I was studying politics but that was the day before yesterday - half a lifetime ago when we were both still so young and cool. We’ve long since fallen from each other’s radar screens. You never found that cure for cancer, I never changed the world. It’s been over thirty years since I last made French toast - and I don’t take my coffee black anymore.
Back for a class reunion
the only face I recognise -
is mine
You were reading medicine, I was studying politics but that was the day before yesterday - half a lifetime ago when we were both still so young and cool. We’ve long since fallen from each other’s radar screens. You never found that cure for cancer, I never changed the world. It’s been over thirty years since I last made French toast - and I don’t take my coffee black anymore.
Back for a class reunion
the only face I recognise -
is mine
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