Pulp Fiction

A pile of CDs in the bedroom of the house

that you still live in, in your dreams.

The first wedding you go to as an adult,

You look at the bride and groom and say

I go to the pub with them! I’ve slept

on their settee!

Tarantino writing the words Pulp Fiction

at the top of a blank piece of paper

the whole day ahead of him.

Once I went to a party at my neighbour’s house

I hadn’t been invited I just heard music I liked

so went to get some cold beers from the shop

and walked in. The first time you leave the house

after someone you loved has died and a stranger says

Everyone you love is somewhere, always,

Completely out of nowhere, you think this was meant

to happen, to be here right now, amongst strangers,

transported to the first time I bought beers in a pub

for me and my dad.  Quentin Tarantino thinking

what about John Travalta? I have put my new shirt on.

As soon as work is done we all know where we’re going.

I am reading a novel I found in a charity shop. Please

let there always be strangers.