Pyjamarama and the past ...

Driving the wounded red beast, I listened to Roxy Music's Pyjamarama - 

I was driving through gentle Wareham, past the almshouses - 

I turned up the volume as high as I dared - 

I remembered listening to this song when I was twenty one - 

I'd spent the evening with a slim girl in a high ceilinged room - there was a kitchen full of bottles - 

One night, I'd swum in the moonlit pool - 

Phil Manzerana's feverish saxophone was just as I'd heard it, in that different world - 

In the rear view mirror, for a few seconds, I saw my younger face - 

The Cross

Wareham

11.30

Friday 20 March 2015