A love in verse

Memories

1996-10-01
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You beside me on the balcony

The dark Aegean sea at dawn

And ouzo and water and cigarettes

And knowing beyond the blazing braziers

You were among ten thousand as we played.

And seeing Brentford from above – our

Own dear town, our yours-and-mine town – 

What memories! And thinking of you and our love – 

What memories to come! 


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Revelations

When you’re old

Revelations come thick and fast

But the bastards do not last...

The Last I Wrote While She Was Still Alive

The air is grey but the temperature’s warm

Late afternoon in an old Kent town

My mood is neutral, kind of brown...