Notes of cocktail glasses
beside rooftop pools
do leave vast impressions
but not the ones you hoped.
As neighbouring as it is
your flat is in Shepherds Bush
about as Holland Park
as Romford’s the East End.
If your holiday is so great
why are you in your hotel
so logged on to work
that you’re basically home?
Any level of coolness
iPad bus journeys hold
get immediately overwritten
as you read the Metro app.
To endlessly talk diets
to anyone who will listen
isn’t really the point
to being vegetarian.
Ascot tux’s look glam
less so on tubes home
tinted by mustard stains
of a late night kebab.