Woman in a Bar - Lloyd Cole

Idealised vision of a woman through a smokefilled

twentieth century screenplay

Advancing

Towards protagonist with paperback and beer

Manifestly failing to disappear

Now that the children are asleep

You want to play

But you’re so lazy

She walks into the bar

And there you are

Still life watercolour Woman In A Window

Considers role of kitchen sink drama queen

Stage left — protagonist with cigarette and pen

Considers form of racehorses, IBM

Declining issues led advancing two to one

In slow trading

She walks into the bar

And there you are

No longer angry

No longer young

No longer driven to distraction

Not even by Scarlett Johansson

A few moving parts

Need to be replaced

The engine starts

But only on Tuesdays

but look at it this way —

Now that the children are asleep

You want to play

But you’re so lazy

She walks into the bar

And there you are

Idealised vision of a woman through a smokefilled

twentieth century screenplay

Advancing

Towards protagonist with paperback and beer

Manifestly failing to disappear.