This poem is taken from Stand 240, 21(4) December 2023 - February 2024.

Scott McKendry Three Poems
Ugly

Taken so he’d never forget, there’s a photo of Monsieur Forgèt
sat outside Shakespeare and Company
the afternoon he sipped black coffee and smoked roll-ups –

a modest fantasy, now fulfilled –

taking in the scene: the recently-burnt-out Notre-Dame
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