Eggplant
I should have tried Lai’s eggplant
I muse mindless
As I step out to the street
No sooner twenty yards
On down the road
Than who else should I meet
But a bloke I’ve not seen
For all too many years;
The frame unmistakable
But now less steady on his feet
I rabbited on
About how busy I’ve been
The usual...
The pain, the joy, the strife;
He feigned to smile
On how such trials
Had got the better of his life;
Fate had intervened
While he was busy
Doing other things
Alas too
So, …was his wife
Even before I left his side
I could not help but think
Life comes and goes
Unwittingly in ‘bout the time it takes to blink
I really need to break this mold
I muse mindless
As I step out to the street
No sooner twenty yards
On down the road
Than who else should I meet
But a bloke I’ve not seen
For all too many years;
The frame unmistakable
But now less steady on his feet
I rabbited on
About how busy I’ve been
The usual...
The pain, the joy, the strife;
He feigned to smile
On how such trials
Had got the better of his life;
Fate had intervened
While he was busy
Doing other things
Alas too
So, …was his wife
Even before I left his side
I could not help but think
Life comes and goes
Unwittingly in ‘bout the time it takes to blink
I really need to break this mold
I too am getting older;
When next at Lai’s
I’ll give his famous ‘eggplant’ dish
A thorough working over
Grahame J Flynn Views in Verse
When next at Lai’s
I’ll give his famous ‘eggplant’ dish
A thorough working over
Grahame J Flynn Views in Verse
