[{"node":{"title":"Greacen018","Collections":"Unpublished Poems","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Greacen018","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"The upstairs room","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacen018","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Greacen018_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffThe Updstairs Room\n\n(For Roy McFadden)\n\nTwo poets sit together in a club\n(An upstairs room mid-century style)\nOne drinking whisky, the other beer.\nFormer images pass in file.\n\nDo you remember? could it have been?\nIt was indeed. The smiling liquid seems to wink.\nEach poet sips another golden tear,\nKnowing it's later than he used to think.\n\nWere those the days? Well, yes and no,\nFor days of youth though timesless days\nAre days time-bound by heart\u2019s unease\nAnd recklessness. And yet the poets praise\n\nAnd lift the glass to certain yesterdays,\nThose sunset evenings spent together\nIn hope and argument and chaff\nThat could defy their elders' chilly weather.\n\nTwo poets sit together in a club ...\nYou ask what point or moral\u2019s in this story?\nJust this, my dear impatient stranger:\nFriendship still edges life with glory.\n","Type":"Text"}}]