Christopher James
Second Honeymoon
She headed east,
on his gleaming Norton 500,
his skeleton riding pillion.
The cooling towers sprung
like mushrooms on the flat horizon.
She slaked her thirst on fen-water
and Suffolk ale while the wind
blew through his bones.
The first night, they camped
In Walberswick and blasted out
American Beauty on the stereo;
She lit a joint and let the blue smoke
drift in one ear and out the other.
At Southwold she pulled up outside
the Swan Hotel and paid cash for two
white roses and a glass of champagne.
Unchallenged, she soft peddled
onto the pier, weaved the handlebars
through the arcade then hit the gas.
With a final gasp, she cleared the railing
leaving just a ninepin of floating bones,
her purple scarf and a note which read:
Please remember to feed my cat.
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