As you leave London on the M4
postmodern office blocks
Audi showrooms
and David Gandy advertising Wellman supplements
jostle to bid you farewell
As you leave London on the M4
postmodern office blocks
Audi showrooms
and David Gandy advertising Wellman supplements
jostle to bid you farewell
In Croydon Tram stops
there are posters of posh Toff
selling cheap clothing
We are the attic people
of East Dulwich
We live in the roofs, gables
and loft conversions
of the old Victorian houses
in the spaces previously
occupied
by scullery maids
and bats.
A shop called Swarovski,
men and women in doorways
sell magazines:
jewels and destitution, rouged to ruddied
cheek.
Ladbrokes
makes
lads broke.
I sit in a cafe
sip Assam
Eat lemon sponge cake
and read Private Eye
Right now I feel
like I could quite happily
spend the rest of my life
alone.
Tokyo Sky Tree:
634
metre high gift shop
Night silence,
navy blue.
Amber streetlight,
Me and You.