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Friday 30 September 2022

Decorum Est

Such is the force of recovery

That I have walked into town

On three or four occasions


The green leaves on black

Suggests the same bitter experience

With the American coffee deliveries


Outside, or across from

The Consortium, I sit in a room

Called the library


Where the other customers apologise

For being too too noisy

With their knives and forks


Which reminds me

Of Mucknell Abbey, where

We were told to be quiet


With our cutlery, especially

Not to scrape too too loudly

Across the crockery



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