Poem
Michael Laskey
NOWADAYS
NOWADAYS
NOWADAYS
anyone can do it, and you wouldn’thave it otherwise, like readily available
access to the internet, foreign travel,
contraception. You wouldn’t, really,
even given last night after supper,
when despite you regretting having come
without your glasses, undeterred,
your host — a good friend and in many ways
a most admirable person — pressed on
you photo after photo after photo
of Australia, the blurred exhaustive tour —
just to give you some idea — of the rooms
in his son’s new flat, the final straw.
© 2008, Michael Laskey
Publisher: First published on PIW,
Publisher: First published on PIW,
Michael Laskey
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1944)
Michael Laskey was born in Lichfield in Staffordshire. He read English at St John’s College, Cambridge, and then worked for ten years as a teacher in Spain and England. He has lived in Suffolk since 1978, working as a freelance writing tutor with a wide range of children and adults, and as an arts administrator.
He was one of the founders of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in 1989 and directed it ...
He was one of the founders of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in 1989 and directed it ...
Poems
Poems of Michael Laskey
Close
NOWADAYS
anyone can do it, and you wouldn’thave it otherwise, like readily available
access to the internet, foreign travel,
contraception. You wouldn’t, really,
even given last night after supper,
when despite you regretting having come
without your glasses, undeterred,
your host — a good friend and in many ways
a most admirable person — pressed on
you photo after photo after photo
of Australia, the blurred exhaustive tour —
just to give you some idea — of the rooms
in his son’s new flat, the final straw.
NOWADAYS
Sponsors
Partners
LantarenVenster – Verhalenhuis Belvédère