We ate Chocolates at the End of the World

at the end of the world we set up a camping gas stove
with a kettle of water drawn from the Well of Euphrates
and made tea with a packet of Earl Grey liberated from the ruins
of the Last Tesco in Hertfordshire (though we left a voucher).

We drank it with a slice of lemon from the Tree of Solitude
and watched Hell spew forth demons so fast they blocked the sun
(until we asked them politely to move)
and laid waste to what was left of Marks and Spencer's
while they waited for the angels to muster and the last horn to be blown.

And they shared the last box of Thorntons' continental with us
but kept the Cherry Truffle for themselves