CELEBRITIES GOING PLACES

Jane McDonald is cruising the Caribbean
tasting streetfood while soft reggae plays,
Michael Portillo’s on the Orient Express
calling off at Murano to see the glassblowing,
Joanna Lumley takes a Spice Trail Adventure
travelling between remote Indonesian islands,
Stephen Fry goes to far Norwegian archipelagos
to monitor the effects of climate change on
endangered wildlife, laughing engagingly
at the frolic of polar bear cubs,
while I’m sitting in the back bedroom,
if I get up in time tomorrow,
and if the rain holds off long enough,
I might stroll down as far as the corner shop…

Andrew Darlington

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