Swizzle Stick

Always Good

Everything is closed.
Churches are open
but not for us.
We eat lapsed-Catholic fish,
& cannot believe how far
we are into the year already.
Every year, we cannot believe
it’s already Good Friday.
We drink wine, we drink beer,
we eat whitebait & scallops
& we listen to a vast playlist
to which the whole family
contributes, every year,
including my late brother,
whose contributions can’t change.
My songs are the best ones, of course
but all the songs are good.
It’s Good Friday, it’s always good.