UNDER THE TABLE by FIONA APPLE. Poem by Michael Leach

 

Bendigo, Australia, 2020

 

It’s COVID stable

in December:

I’m sat at the table

eating porridge

with pieces of apple

while listening

to ‘Under the Table’

by Fiona Apple

—1 of the precious

few pleasurable

things to have come

 from a debacle

of a calendar year.

 

 

Stereo Story #564

See also a 2015 story by Matthew Mastricova about the Fiona Apple song Regret.