Specials for Weekend 4.11.25

Well, we almost forgot to post the specials, as we have no food specials this week (we have a banquet to do). We will have our regular menu, of course, which is pretty special, and then Mark Connors the Human Jukebox will join us Saturday night!

“Forgotten Field”

If I take good care of myself

that’s what she asks me in the café

where I’m sipping my drink

I nod eagerly

that’s something you must do

when you’re old

and point to the contents of my shopping bag

a takeaway dinner of sausage and kale

the evening papers full of the world’s squabbles

a cigarette carton like pistols in wartime

and a bottle of wine from Portugal

‘Forgotten Field’ that’s its name

never entered in the land register

I’ll have to go there some day

–Remco Campert, trans. Donald Gardner

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