Tuesday, 7 September, 2010
Volume LIII Number 9
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Poetry
Driving Home
When we were lighter on our feet
our evenings among friends
were filled with coq au vin
and smoke and rowdy songs
that woke the kids upstairs
but what the hell, and anyhow
at midnight, pink with amitié
we kissed each other’s wives
and let our headlights guide us home.
Our long, ungainly, unexpected lives
ran off ahead of us, like frightened animals.