Canned Company

is all we can have amid the lock down
from the safety of our social distancing.

Who realised until it was taken away
that an audience and frequent applause
made so much of television and radio
seem so much more entertaining?

I didn't before, but I do know now,
and on youtube, vevo and the BBC,
I seek out that vintage humour
recorded before an audience
where I can almost take a bath
in the warm laughter from the past
and in doing so see my spirits lifted.