Marion, do you want my initial quatrain? You are welcome to it since I couldn't make it go anywhere. Here's what I finally came up with. Is Pernod quite the drink I want? Is it sophisticated? Is there another drink that would fit? I quite like the Byronic rhyme in line 6, but if anyone can improve the couplet, please feel free with you suggestions. Tunbridge Wells, though actually a town, and a very nice one too, is supposedly the epitome of bourgeois suburbia.
In Praise of Urban Living
I hate the environs
Of cattle and crops.
My favourite sirens
Are cafes and shops.
My hunting ‘n stalking
Persona quite lacks ease.
I deprecate walking.
I like taking taxis.
I lounge in a turban
In high class hotels
With Pernod or Bourbon.
I love traffic smells.
I’m never suburban.
I hate Tunbridge Wells.
I’m totally urban.
I’m lost somewhere else.
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