General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

THE LIST


You wanted...

a piano,
just like your father's,
so grand as you sat on the end,
playing all that jazz he loved.

You wanted...
an electric telephone exchange,
plugging you into the sky-
above.

You wanted...
a dolly's pink wardrobe,
and a dolly's draped cot...
And Wendy showing you all the clothes
she's got.

You wanted...
a fitted wooden workbox
with stool,
just like the ones they had
at school.

You wanted...
a Raliegh Sunbeam cycle with those balloon tyres-
to take you on those summer days
under all those green trees
and past all those lazy spires,

to a land you were born to love
and to dance your little dance till the sun
went down...

to dance your little dance till the sun
went down...

All this
found in an old tin box on a rainy, rainy night.
A list still so relevant
and still so bright,

your father kept
with all the love he held for you,
the little list you gave him
in the summer of '62...


Jarvo 2021