Breakfast with a breathtaking view:
Tuscan hills, Val d’Orcia, but most of all: you.

A strangely cute but short of cuddly
Underwater aqua-vac
Patrolling the pool deep end and back
Like some scuba-puppy on a long leash.

Cursing at every corner our hire car
Whose windscreen frame seemed
So absurdly wide at the side
It’d hide a ten-ton Italian truck:
More ‘See it No-No’ than Fiat Bravo.

Playing ‘Hunt the Ospedale’,
‘Dov’e Doctore? ’,
‘Trouvare la Pharmacia’:
‘Medicino in Montalcino’.
‘Good Game. Good Game’
As Bruce Forsyth might say…..
Not!

Finally to the winery: Brunello di Banfi and Fontanella,
Served by Antonnella, Daniella and Francesca.

Tony Jolley

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/odd-bits-of-today/