Sunday, December 13, 2009

A Bad Idea

I have no spine
or perhaps too electic a humour, ey?
his friend from work
an older man sixties or seventies
tipsy
settled beside me when he was gone and said
"my friend likes you"
all singsong
in a knowing teasing way
childlike gleeful
and waited for a response
I said, "I can tell"
*sigh*
he's a christmas nut
dressed up in short santa suit with gifts
because his dad used to always do that every year
i had not the heart to decline carols

it is totally not my kind of thing

2 comments:

  1. That poem is totally my kind of thing.

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  2. i am all carolled out, the poor man - i am reserved when sober and difficult to talk to - awkward evening

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