The phrase had legs. “The Flip,” capital-F: Coined by Dolly Alderton in her 2024 bestseller Good Material, it flew across the public consciousness by way of TikTok, tabloid media, and womanly word-of-mouth.

In August 2024, a young boy stood in the Museo Interattivo Leonardo da Vinci in Florence, Italy, his face awash with awe.

This poem was written in response to a prompt, chosen by the Cambridge University JazzSoc: 'Sketches of Spain', the Miles Davis album.