Pome: ‘Define Beauty,’ She Said; So I did

Then she did the same as that’s how it goes

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Define ugly, too. Pic: Paradisio Publishing

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‘Define Beauty,’ She Said; So I did

people go the art gallery and feel cultured

the movies once a year, are ready to scribe for the culture pages

follow a football team and baloney crocked-wisdom about it on a podcast

know half the Beatles canon

read a book once on Bob Dylan

down 8 pints, call it an escapade

and the whole show adds up to quiet farce that tells them they can define the world

their way and only their way

which they can

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but it does not mean they are right

whatever right is

apart from a dog in the shade of a field dreaming a butcher’s supper, that springs up lissome in the dusky light

and pads towards you

tongue lolling

eyes carrying the souls of it’s ancestors