Chris McCabe (London, UK): "Premeet"

Eight minutes to a meeting I don’t want to be at
            lingering at stool in the white room
my dad would have written his dream England XI
                        I want to make a poke at a poem
      —one likeable Larkin take: to write what
you would want to read—
      but there’s always games on mobile phones
             DETAILS next to DELETE
                                      thumbs like fitting seals
       CLOSING APPLICATION
                            two minutes to go—
        was it Parkinson or Aspel
                      who shadowboxed pre-guests?

Cicatrix of papercuts makes this need to confess

© Chris McCabe 2006