Poem: Old Friends/New Friends Came For Tea

Old friends, and 
new friends  
came for tea. A lovely 
meal that Katy cooked. 
 
Lots of wine and happy 
laughs, and talking craft 
beer and wine and song 
and one of the new friends 
wanted to know how to  
medicate gout – and that’s 
a specialist topic of mine 
 
(and in the wheelhouse of 
middle-aged dinner party 
chat topics). 
 
And then the war-stories 
of how som…