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.