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