A Morris Minor, a café noir –    Banana smoothie, snails in a jar.   Three dodgy sailors, a girl on skates –   A little too muscled from doing weights.       A family wedding, a sushi bar –   Sand in the Seychelles, karaoke star.   Lads on the razzle get lost in love.   Paddington station, rain clouds above.      The crumpled sheets of a long hot summer.   Stored images like an acorn, drop.   Squirreled away, but still remembered   by the man in the photo shop.      Rush hour on Praed Street: behind the glass –   a picture process, in one hour fast.   Intimate portraits of topless wives –   flashed indiscretions: snap-happy lives.