Our last evening together
Before her long overseas holiday
We opt for the cinema
A film, French, sexy
Vadim's "Liaisons Dangereuses"
Busy
snogging our
sensuous farewells
in the stalls oblivious we
ignore steamy on-screen
images of sex and seduction
As lights go up
Forcing us apart from our prolonged kiss
Seats in a swathe around us
Have emptied
Isolating us
Like malignant bacteria in a petri dish.
Other cinemagoers
Disturbed more by fact than fiction
Have withdrawn to seats
Further away
Furthest away
To avoid infection
From our besotted behaviour
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