They arrived and left the stage
as musical comets do
these pioneers of New Wave
who sang of Jennifer
with her orange hair
and green eyes
in a short staccato
string of hits
Any one of myriad descriptions
for the 1980s
though branding the decade
with a memorable definition
of and for unique
while warning us
Love is a stranger
in a open car
to tempt you in
and drive you far away
And in Lennox and Stewart’s
unexpected departure
one can only surmise
a little bit of some things
is better than too much
leaving us to ponder
were they the kind
that liked to abuse
or be abused?
though in fact
it may have been neither
