Hanging out unrobed
like Mata Hari – ruby earrings
dripping from their lobes –
is Harry and Mahatma’s way
of cheering themselves
out of after-Christmas doldrums.
It’s swell to feel yourself
insouciantly lolling on a plum-
red velvet throw, not worrying
about how things will go,
with precious jewels
as your companions:
just the gift to lift you from
the canyons of post-holiday
despair. After all the folderol
of promulgating vol-au-vents
rempli de champignons
et truffes all day – that stuff
can make you swear! –
it’s lovely to recline, aloof –
expensively decline to care.
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