Please laugh in her face

I'm not going to tell you that April phoned.

I know what you will say. 'Of course she did,

and I bet you answered and I bet you didn't make

any excuse or say 'this is getting silly now, the cost

of the train tickets, the inconveience, the loss

of an evening once a month when we could be at home

watching a John Le Carre adaptation or one of the things we like

with people cooking, I bet you didn't let it go to voicemail

and let the next one go to voicemail and when the next one

goes to voicemail she'll realise maybe I should stop now,

you'll say of course April has been in touch, haven't I had

enough Aprils in my life, there is always another April, always

an event, yet another of our weekday evenings when I cook

and you get on with things or when I get on with things

and you cook it really doesn't matter as long as we're together,

the two of us, as long as we're together

me and you at home.