I Suggested Iceland

I suggested Iceland and you smiled

But said you’d been there before

And it was very expensive.

I can afford, I said, and we had another round

Of Guinness, coke, and hot nuts

Volcanic comestibles, I joked

As you checked your phone

A light din as diners arrived

Got up in beauty scarves and breed

And I saw you too in the mainstream

Faintly swimming like a pinkeen

For the larger shoal

I suggested then mountains and fjords and lights

But you smiled and informed that

You had been there and done

All the usual sights

Volcanos aren’t that special, you said

And anyway, you need to pick the right time.

I hid my teeth out of deference

To your sparkling white fence

That I was ill-equipped to broach

And suggested another time

To which you politely replied

Yes yes, another time

When lights can be seen

And teeth are relatively clean.

Farewell, Iceland

And checking back on expenses

Agreed with you it was not the right

Time of year for swimming, certainly not as one

When as two we secured further votes

For partition.

And lights dimming

I took my suggestions and went

To another pub where another pint

And a shot, and an abandoned

Search for an affordable dentist

All happened, within fifteen minutes

Of partition.