Old Romantics


from the ABC set

Remember, love, how it was?

Flock of Seagulls, that haircut!

My pegged trousers, GTi Golf.

Spitting Image on the telly

made Thatcher look normal.

Your puffballs, rah-rahs,

skirting ridicule.

We ‘danced ourselves dizzy’:

films started with an ‘F’:

Footloose, Fame, Flashdance.

Miner’s strike built PCs palaces,

nukes in the news at Greenham.

Reaganomics didn’t work,

no one told Sid.

Fondues, ‘fandabidozi!’

Game for a laugh:

We must have been.

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