Julian Scutts Poet Light Verse

One Too Many

Were they birds of night with luminous wings?
Were they Gabriel’s geese on a spree?
Were the stars adrift, or were they things
None but prophets – or madmen – can see?
Or had I had one too many that night
though I swear I had no more than three.

But you saw them too, my wife, my dove,
As we stood at the kitchen door,
Or was it indulgence, my wife, my love,
Bade you speak thus and not what you saw?
Look, an ambulance has just drawn up.
Who are those men in white coats coming for?

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