Miles Franklin - Momus

All the lovers I’ve had I seemed to mislay

One went mad, one went away

One left a note that said 'The heart repairs'

On the wine cork he wrote 'Love is there'

The shelves we put up at the foot of the stairs

Make me long to be a couple like the ones at Ikea

Now when I dream of a man

I see him putting up shelves (shelves!)

Single, 32, working in IT

Miles Franklin

Gay, discreet

Neatly-bound issues, Wallpaper magazine

Sam Taylor-Wood, Philip Glass symphonies

David Sylvian, 'Dead Bees On A Cake'

Modernist, minimalist, opaque

Japanese tea, lonely old me

The day before you came

The one that got away

My life with Tyler Brule

Whether you care or pretend you don’t care

You can’t forget 'love is there'

Classified advertisements, Wallpaper magazine

Lines from stupid pop songs, the fragments of a dream

Or simply spring (spring!)

It all begins again

The serene calm of ebonised ash

Modern antiques, ceramics and birch

A stainless steel kitchen, a stainless steel heart

Kuala Lumpur, a world apart

The men I never met

The books I never wrote

Files full of letters and boxes full of notes

A Charles Eames chair, beautiful and bare

The day before you came

The one that got away

My life with Tyler Brule

Whether you care or pretend you don’t care

You can’t forget 'love is there'

The shelves of magazines

You flipped through idly

Your life as tidy as the Alexandria library

The heart repairs

Like the shelves at the foot of the stairs

The day before you came

The one that got away

My life with Tyler Brule

Discreet or outrageous, scene or non-scene

Love is there, shy and obscene

The men I never met

The books I never wrote

The songs I never sang, my heart full of hope

Or simply spring (spring!)

It all begins again