Physical Indifference

Sitting together drinking the same amber fizzy drink

With the cappuccino head. 

The guy with the jug -- it's his round. Pouring faster than he's been drinking, until now. 

But at least he bought one. Site worker or suit wearer looking out from the 45 floor. 

Some things are the same. 

Not quite enough courage 

To hold a clear fizzy drink

With a slice of citrus,

Or a stemmed glass 

With a dark maroon cordial. 

But if occasion calls 

There is amber in a shorter, wider glass

As everyone whets their whiskers

And waxes about peat

Calling each other out

As jack awful

And shaking each other's 

Wet hands. 

You guys set the precedent 

For each other. 

And watch the girls drink 

From long necks 

Calling themselves feminists

To quote a male paradigm.