Today I offer you Betjeman's shortest poem - only six lines.
But it is a perfect little cameo of an unlikely relationship.
John Betjeman
IN A BATH TEASHOP
"Let us not speak, for the love we bear one another—
Let us hold hands and look."
She such a very ordinary little woman;
He such a thumping crook;
But both, for a moment, little lower than the angels
In the teashop's ingle-nook.
Note: The "very ordinary little woman" is believed to have been Alice Jennings, a married lady whom Betjeman met at the BBC.
I understand the lady concerned,agreed entirely with the JB
self description but objected strongly to the use of"ordinary".