Album
A hard backed book of sepia photographs
offered for sale. A life times memories
proffered half seriously and half for laughs.
Bright young women receiving their degrees
and fiercely moustached men in cricket whites.
Amorphous grand fathers who could well be
yours or mine. Frozen at some sacred rite
For all grand fathers looked the same you see.
Gay flappers in short skirts and tight cloche hats
obedient to fashion all chest were flat
They will be great grandmothers now those girls.
How sad how very sad it seems to me
to sell the history of your family.
1 Jul 04
A hard backed book of sepia photographs
offered for sale. A life times memories
proffered half seriously and half for laughs.
Bright young women receiving their degrees
and fiercely moustached men in cricket whites.
Amorphous grand fathers who could well be
yours or mine. Frozen at some sacred rite
For all grand fathers looked the same you see.
Gay flappers in short skirts and tight cloche hats
obedient to fashion all chest were flat
They will be great grandmothers now those girls.
How sad how very sad it seems to me
to sell the history of your family.
1 Jul 04
