Thursday 11 February 2016

Hipsters (Watson's General Telegraph)


Like cowboys in a realistic western
you meet in this faded saloon
whose decor is artfully distressed.
to practice your low-light revolution.

In form, you are the new Edwardians.
Like explorers on some Polar expedition
your favourite colours are brown and black.
Your full beards are back in fashion.

Who would have thought that our grandparents’
furniture would come back to haunt us?
Their antique artifacts, like sepia ghosts
are echoed in the way that you dress.

We learned to wear their coats
but there was brightness in our rebellion.
We tried to drive away their darkness.
We plastered the walls that you stripped back.

1 comment:

Fergus said...

"Who would have thought that our grandparents’
furniture would come back to haunt us?"

Love it.