Yellow tulips - James Fenton

Winner of both the Queen's Gold
Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers
some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the
formal skill that marked his debut, Terminal Moraine, to the
dramatic and political monologues of The Memory of War and Children
in Exile, through to the unforgettable love poems of Out of
Danger and his most recent work: Poems is an essential
selection by, as Stephen Spender put it, 'a brilliant poet of technical
virtuosity'.

Don't talk to me of love. I've had an earful
And I get tearful when I've downed a drink or two.
I'm one of your talking wounded.
I'm a hostage. I'm maroonded.
But I'm in Paris with you.

From 'In Paris With You' by James Fenton