Poem: The Weekend With Mum and Dad

It was lovely 
to see the folks 
and we didn’t 
fight much 
 
a wee disagreement 
about the rugby player 
that dropped his shoulder,  
turned his elbow and was red-carded 
 
and a difference in opinion 
about drivers in the art-market 
and the price of a piece and how 
artists should just accept whatever 
someone is willing to pay – or do 
anything else since they hav…