Imitations by Dannie Abse

This poem is an very personal observation of Abse's: his son is stepping into his father's footsteps and is slowly. It's another one about growing up.

Abse does distance and differentiate himself a little from his son in Imitations though. "He listens to some pop forgeries" suggests that the son listens to music different to what Abse may listen to himself; an attempt at a similar taste, that perhaps in his opinion has tried but not quite succeeded at being as good as what he listened to as a youth.

He then links this to his father, and how he (Abse) was in turn "his duplicate".