A Poem from “Leaving and Other Poems”

We maintain

The urbane

And are witty

In the city.

But those who hark

To the fox’s bark

In the suburban dark

Find the urbane

Hard to maintain

And their wit

Begins to slip.

 

(Note: the above poem appears in my collection “Leaving and Other Poems”, which is available in Kindle and paperback from Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leaving-other-poems-Kevin-Morris/dp/B09R3HR9KG).