On this auspicious date in July:
Richard the Lionheart was crowned; Thomas Cook
ran his first railway excursion, Leicester
to Peterborough and back; Thomas More
was beheaded; Horlicks went on sale; Newton
published his ‘Principia’; John Lennon
met Paul McCartney; Pasteur cured rabies;
the first full length talkie was premiered…
From that date in ‘61 – a blind date
(you with the black spot to avenge a friend
and, after, changing your mind and your heart,
and me, innocently of course, longing
for sex and romance) – justice, being blind,
has sentenced us to our just deserts,
locked us up in half a century of love
with all its longing, its hurt, and its joy.
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By David Selzer