Hi Bob,
Nice to see some more of your work. This one is very much Bob Cooper style
and a slice of mundane life made interesting. I think the last three lines
make it more than mere reportage.
bw
James
>From: Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: When We're For Coffee
>Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:36:26 +0000
>
>Here's one for some C & C:
>
>When We’re For Coffee
>
>Middle-aged-Dave, who’s my age, but the only one here
>in white shirt, neatly knotted dark tie, has already told us
>all he thinks about Grin & Blur It, as he calls the PM,
>education, then tax, but he isn’t offering his biscuits,
>and I’m looking out the window where, like yesterday,
>I hope to see swans. I’ve heard they’re vicious,
>they rush, they hiss, their long wings can break an arm.
>I ought to take time to watch them more closely. Now
>Ted’s telling Mandy and Susie from the top floor how FCUK
>is too crude a name for expensive T-Shirts and jeans,
>that beautiful things should be discreet, and the cost
>of heating the office is so much more than a jacket
>and a sweater with the firm’s logo, and how the customer pays.
>They smile to each other but not at us then glide off like swans
>while he turns to John, to me, and as we watch them
>climb the stairs I’m grateful we can’t see their eyes.
>
>Bob
>
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