A Gay Sonnet

A Friday of Gayness Today I drove to Faro town I wanted a meal of tuna steak with onions at the café I used to frequent fifteen years ago. The place had gone upmarket and so had the prices one waiter remembered me but not my wife and she took a dislike to him said he was effeminate; the café has two parts, one with a wine bar I mostly sat there. Oscar Wilde came in or someone looking as him, he remarked of what he had observed during the day an intelligent mind who could recite his own poems beautifully . I decide to become gay too, to be frivolous and happy, but avoid the sex thing the very thought made me shudder. Alas, I had to drive my wife home I tried to translate some of Oscar`s remarks into Portuguese, she didn`t think it was funny But that was my fault telling jokes is not my metier so I was back being my pedestrian self