Twixt Cibeles and Zanzibar

Dinner at VIPS
and I’m sitting beside three American girls

Graduates, speaking of priests and seminaries

The one next to me sat on my arm coming in
Probably trying to avoid it, the way golfers
slice into the hazard

That’s me: a hazard to young Christian graduates

Don’t ask my opinion on anything but the football
highlights playing in our line of sight

Great strikes, and formidable goalkeeping (two
penalties saved) and real affection between the teams before and after

We have a new Prime Minister

And now the Right are marching against
the enemies of Spain

Who are the enemies?
What is Spain?

They’ve gathered along the street
at Colón. The man who brought us America

The Right will always need its enemies,
just as the Church needs its sinners