wretched weather

you rarely hear

the word wretched anymore.

it sounds

English, British,

maybe my

friend Ingrid, from Ireland

might toss that

word around.

Wretched weather were

having, eh?

bloody hell, this rain,

she might say.

she refuses to give up

on her native language,

or pint of beer, not glass,

or potatoes

and boiled beef.

it's hard to dispose of 

the red hair and freckles

too i imagine.