Geoff Stevens
Winter Rush Hour
Street lights bleed into the darkness,
diffuse light like seed clocks,
dandelions losing alpha-particles
into passing time.
The rain is greasy, oils everything.
Cars and buses stop, then trundle
between dying rows of department stores,
their eyes gone out.
13 and 74 stencil sharply
into the front of slowly passing buses.
They are cut with precision;
everything else is blurred.
This window is shedding tears.
We sit in its brain,
which has ceiling lights
that flutter in sequence with the thunder.
Someone is walking through it,
carrying a ham cob,
which is tightly wrinkled in clingfilm,
with pink meat pressing its tongue against it.
Waiting in here is flat, lifeless and dull.
I drink it down like warm beer
and it fills up again with the same.
Brain signals glisten like cigarette ends
I get a message which says that
I am going to be late home for dinner.
I dial the same old number
and a voice, as dry as ovened gravy, puts me on hold.
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