A Mothers love

She bought him the bar

The satin oak, that wouldn't let Friday or Saturday night soak ...in

She fixed chandeliers above every table

Bought him a wine cooler full of dom perignons 

and uniformed the staff, so the cocktails made themselves 

She bought him the finest canapés he couldn't pronounce 

Put it all on her business account

She bought him Sinatra in surround sound 

The best musicians from around the town 

Brought in all walks of life, his future wife

and it all... went up his nose

Passing on

She heard there'd be screaming traffic, skeleton trees and a sea of regrets. But she was faced with gentle closure and a field in bloom where it was just too good to wake

Bread and dripping

And he played his violin over bread and dripping as Westminster conducted him. He scorned new phones, peroxide trainers and tattoos. 

He wanted budgeting  - bread and dripping and Westminster conducted him