Tuesday, 19 August 2025

tallboy

 tallboy


upstairs sunday morning

hand-chins on the bed with my mother

watching them through the curtain crack


off to church in their finery

with their fox stoles 

their lucky rabbit’s paws pinned in silver

mum tumbling acid drops at so and so

all fur coat and no knickers

etc her amen


then down stairs to get on with the dinner

dad down the pub for his prandial pint

before his afternoon nap

when i winked off to sunday school 

and the curtains closed

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