Supplements for all

That was
A bit odd
Don't you think

The Saturday news
On
A Thursday evening

The internet’s strange
A purveyor of what
Right now is happening

Before it's happened, then
Brings news half
A week after the event

…My mother's letters
They too were often
A week or so

In the writing
Then a few days more
Until she caught the post

Except those times
When the advertisement for
The Shackleton High Chair

Or the flyer for the
Dolphin Walk in Shower Bath
Took her eye

Surprised most of all were
The younger generation
Odd that we should think

That desire belongs the chosen youthful few
Odd that we are uneasy with the concept
Of the old not being ill at ease


Happy they too with advertised
Collections of China Dolls &
China Thimbles

With Saturdays post
And other days news
Left unopened

On the sideboard; lying beside
The well thumbed
Weekend supplements

As the repeats
Of previous repeats
Are replayed over



This poem is from the collection East of Lincoln Central available now on kindle - click on the text for details