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Sunday 6 December 2020

Taste

There is a breeze

Also across the tops of the palm trees

The piano bar music steps, strolls, meanders

Smoothly over the seafood restaurant tables


The water is cold

Not bloody-cold, as in Kos I grant you

But the pool is cold nonetheless

For such a wimp of a man as I


The machine made Americano

Is bitter, not sweet, nor delicate

Fortunately it is only 0.15 litre

So not too too much to drink, or to throw away


There has been rain

I don’t think I told you

It was on the way here

As we walked up the hill


But we pressed on

In the almost certain knowledge

That the sun would shine again

That the good times, they would return