Spectator poems
From the magazine

The Chequebooks

Matthew Stewart
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 31 May 2025
issue 31 May 2025

Unlike all their predecessors

with their stubs recording new bikes,

a week’s holiday in Cornwall

or a magazine subscription,

your last chequebooks wait in the drawer.

Complete, pristine and obsolete,

they’ve got no story left to tell.

Though that’s a story in itself.