How to Lose a Friend
 
If we were blokes, the crime would be cancelled
with punch up and pint.
But in a Bluewater coffee shop
your PhD brain sinks too deep a shaft for my shallow poem.
The tribute of Marie Antoinette wedge wood figurine
misinterpreted not as a beauty but a bitch.
I’m a little bit offended grows like an aggressive cancer
in shoe shops as you examine brogues,
whilst I try to scratch out the evidence with blunt excuses.
Delivering you home, I feel a cold draft
as you slam the car door against me.
Months tallying your phone silence,
deterred from calling myself by the guard-dog husband.
Then at Christmas a Best wishes from the family.
Now, the merest jolt triggers memories of
high heels and hats for twin birthday treats,
a phone call at 8.30 stirs false hope,
fluffy ‘cardy’  on a  clothes rail prompts Oh she would like this.
Despite heart to hearts with a new friend,
and raucous nights  out with another,
I find that there is no under-study for your friendship.

Fiona Sinclair

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