7 Cambridge college boys
around a table for two,
taking the whole casual-coffee
thing to new heights;
a mighty gathering of elbow patches and tweed,
with absolutely no pipes-
some come from a non-smoking family.

And that last sentence: not a lie nor a word of figment, but an overheard gobbet of pure ‘I’m-not-old-enough-to-wear-this-graph-paper-shirt’ innocence.