The Aftermath

Coffee table full of toiletries, chocolates and yesterday’s wine glasses,

mine still half-full – zoned out of the festive mode somewhere around the half-way mark

and snored my way through the final stretch to midnight

only vaguely aware of the accompanying strums on my son’s electric guitar

as he croaked out the last hits of a bygone band –

The Beatles.

Words & image by Jay Cool, 26th December 2024

Published by The Silly-Savvy Salopian

Freelance writer and descendant of the cave dweller and outlaw, Humphrey Kynaston. Banished from Shropshire for my eccentricity, I have made my home in Suffolk. I write poetry, short stories, travel journals, comedy gig reviews and non-fiction articles. My wish is to write my way back into the heart of my birth land. All writing commissions (and free holidays in Shropshire!) considered.

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