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A Barred Plymouth Rock rooster with grey-and-white barred plumage in a navy three-piece suit, white shirt and bottle-green silk tie, seated like a gentleman on a wooden banquette beside a white-clothed table in a dark wood-panelled steakhouse, barred wing feathers resting at his cuffs, a coupe of champagne, a plate of lamb chop with watercress and a brass lamp on the table, tall windows onto the old stone buildings of a narrow downtown street

One Glass at Lunch

All morning the numbers went up, and at lunch they were still going. He marks it with one glass of champagne and the same lamb chop he ordered the last time they went the other way.

4 August 2026