Me and Craig David

Me and Craig David,

we had a very brief affaire:

7 days of courtship

condensed into an intense

lunch hour from our respective jobs

at WHBoots and the

British Heart Foundation shop.

He met me at 12:01,

took me for a drink at 12:02,

we were making love by 12:13

and at 12:16 and 12:18 and 12:20,

we chilled at 12:30

(two prawn mayo sangers

and a grab bag of Nik Naks,

Nice 'N' Spicy, ooh yeah).

Our passion was on

fast-forward but then

we hit the STOP button

when the clock struck one

and we returned to our humdrum lives,

the one-dimensional nine-to-five

of selling big bags of biros,

arranging neat rows of Filofaxes

and steaming old arsecloths.

What we had was special,

Craig can never replicate

on any other lunchtime,

on any other date.

B.R. 29.12.2022

Six months later, Craig got a job at Do It All. He wasn't so happy there as the lunch breaks were shorter (significantly reducing the length of his lovemaking) but the experience did provide the inspiration for a concept album, "Born to Do It All".