The Australian

There is no explanation

why my

first response

was to buy

a sports car;

within days

a loan was secured.

With the late September sun,

it seemed that

the right thing 

was being done,

a dotted 

line was signed.

The impracticality

of the situation

never really occurred,

because at

twenty-eight 

acceleration was 

my main

motivation.

Whilst

this is now

a long time

in the past,

each passing Autumn

thoughts of

a Volvo estate

are considered,

but in the end

he was not my baby

anyway.