In Dr Z's Footsteps
I knew that I was on the homeward stretch,
once the blizzard set in and a robust
anarchist barged into the compartment,
distracting me from working up images
for the mad snowflakes against the window.
I arrived in the metropolis clutching
two perch wrapped in a soggy newspaper -
passed through the lines of doleful people selling
useless domestic goods and old army
tunics for ranks that no longer existed.
The Agrarian Commission had taken
over our ground floor, most of the other rooms
had been requisitioned. I could see that
my first task must be to get some fuel for
this attic stove that had always smoked badly.
The windows were already sealed with putty.
‘By the way’, said my wife, ‘you don’t say rooms;
it’s called ‘living space’ nowadays. Moreover,
I wish you would stop inhabiting novels.
We are facing a bleak, literal winter’.
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