Cul-de-sac

[ellajam]

Cul-de-sac -
An inquisitive O.A.P. in a slowly
shuffling serpentine post office
queue on a rainy giro day in summer 
who states, "It was warmer at Christmas?"
                                  - Cul de Sac

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This may be a bit 'too' British to work here -
O.A.P. is an Old Age Pensioner/ Senior Citizen.
Giro is informal for unemployment benefit/social security payment that used to be a cheque that had to be cashed at the post office fortnightly.
And the footnote is longer than the bloody poem.

Just a note on the footnote, I need more time with the poem. I googled as I read before I ever got to the note, seems easy enough to do when reading on the net. I love reading poems studded with slang from other areas.