We were supposed to have brioche rolls for tea
To put the burgers in
Three evenings a week we have meals
That arrive at our house in a big, red box
I put the fridge things away first
Obviously
But there was no clear place to put the brioche
So I put it somewhere else

It’s been a funny day
I tried rather helplessly to load ‘Teams’
Or to open it on the laptop (first choice)
Or the iPad (second choice)
But it would only open on my phone
By which time the nice doctor
Said I was fifteen minutes late
And we might not have enough time
For him to tell me how bad
My inattentiveness is
I rather thought I’d given him a heads up
What to expect

And I had been going to lend to my mum
The dvd of Northanger Abbey
That I had been raving about
Then it turned out
It wasn’t in the dvd case
And it wasn’t in any of the other dvd cases
Or in the stack of dvds that
Have no case at all

It was in a case somewhere 
I should think
It’s a good film so I’d have put it in a case
Whichever was nearest
Nice and safe
Not something that could be said for the brioche buns
Whose whereabouts
May never be discovered

At least there were inferior bread rolls
In the freezer
So tea was quite lovely in the end
The burgers turned out very well
And I didn’t forget
Even for a moment
That I was supposed to be cooking them