Matthew Caley
Franco's
Where I am enclaved
wasting this Holy Thursday
devouring lan Gibson’s Lorca,
a pasta-twirl
or a
Parma-ham pizza
With its ripe polished olive at the centre of everything.
EVERYONE KNOWS
PINCUS ROSE
FOR SMARTEST CLOTHES
Ian Gibson? Pincus Rose? Lorca?
Who decides on the name of a gas
or the Sea Of Tranquillity?
His voice is so deep it provided the lining for his shoes.
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Where else could one discuss
rare groove,
the etymology of ‘by Jove’
or the prose style of Contre Sainte-Beuve
with the waiters face and jacket as white as coral?
I am wondering if he will guess the name
of the man in the ‘loose author’s tie’
who defied authorities’ noose
and found his own Gethsemane
in an olive-grove
when a Rasta-girl
breaks from the impatient queue with a view to
my pizza’s black-hole, my cappuccino’s Saturn-ring.
‘Do you mind if I step into your grave?’
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