Mums and Lovers

MUMS AND LOVERS

Whatever has happened to boys
today
Says my grey eyed Mother
Why when I was
young
And hip as a rose I was
You must understand
darling this was the sixties
Why they would form a
queue
One on each cobble of my garden path
Oh darling
grey stone green grass path
And flowers and poems and cannabis
they'd bring

Yet now they only seem to make you
cry
Whatever has happened to boys
today

fazed by Feminism
I suggest weakly
bored

And she laughs crinkly silver crisp bag
face
Desire darling she says is stronger than
fear

And there was John
She
continues
He took me to the topiary park
and
seventeen I was
He pulled me behind a giant
tortoise
carved out of a bush
Oh darling divine dark
green bush
Next to black blue running secluded
streams
And kiss me he did
And well
It was
evening
You must understand darling this was the
sixties

And I tell you there was David
Who
took me out on thin ice
so fast we'd glide
Oh darling
crisp ice and white winter sky
With pure cold you taste on
your tongue
And in your throat and threw your
self
And so fast we'd skate it would never break
And
afterwards we'd huddle under fir trees
And well
It
was cold
You must understand darling this was the
sixties

And as for me
I remember
Sam
And the parties to close to hear
With flashing
lights
Maddening Alchopop insanity
And the boys
without names who'd dance too close
While he sulked
shy
Giving disapproving glances every time I
left
With yet another man
Oh Darling Sam
You
who knew all about art and philosophy
And Diderot
But
turned out to be to polite
or to scared
To put your
tongue properly down my throat
Maybe that's why I remember you
more than the others

This is the Zeroes you know