Lockdown! Drink up! Celebrate VE Day! The Greatest Generation , and All that. Let the whole nation band together in pious sentimentality Over Something most know only from TV Or films. "Remember!" - I truly don't understand What's meant by that, however grand The tone. What about what ? For me, Of course, it can mean my dad - But that's just it: I actually do Recall their humdrum faces, their elsewhere eyes. Sanctification is an insult to the sad, Haunting truth they lived through. We are celebrating lies.
I've been on furlough for a month now, and it looks like it might continue for a while yet. To pass the time I've decided to keep a diary in sonnet form - one sonnet per day.