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Friday, 24 February 2023

Past Master

I found the book

Spine broken

Tea stained cover

Pages browned with age


Sadly it brought purpose

To an otherwise purposeless morning

In bed until eleven

Not much more to it than that


I also came across the biscuits

Chocolate digestives no less

I don’t recall that you had a favourite

You not being a sweet-tooth, unlike me


His poem, you know the teacher’s poem

There on page eighteen, his poem

Which says so much about you

Although with words which I never could have raised