Shimmering Poem by Robert W.Quilter

2003
it was April, and in the cafe he was reading a paper
Baghdad had fallen
the new struggle between Islam and Christendom
but what happenend?
we used to get on so well, the believers and the infedels

2010
there is a shimmering now, in the Fox and Hound
because someone unusual is entering it: , a lady in a black veil-
a hijab, with the eyes slightly displayed, hand in hand with
a scabby little boy of eight or nine-danny's age
they come with their soft drinks and settle in a corner
it is amomalous, he supposes a child and a quite elderly
Muslim women in a public house
'what shall we play? 'she asks him

Europe is destined to become a Muslim-majority continent
somewhere in the early part of the next century.
so the end result of your sexual revolution might be the
sharia and the veil