Joanne Limburg
The Greyness of Suits
has boxed me in
with swaying walls of pinstripe;
fills my nostrils, blocks the light;
protects the modesty of men,
lending them the stone geometry
of City offices;
surges against me
as we round a bend,
jamming me against the glass,
a pickle crammed into a jar;
drains by degrees
as we grind through the suburbs,
beaching the man with the mud-puddle face
who sags in his seat
like a mollusc out of its shell;
stings my eyes
bitterly, like smoke
as I turn away from him
and step out through the doors;
yawns in the mouth of the tunnel
as man and train recede
down its long, damp oesophagus,
and I mount the station steps
into the ash-grey dusk.
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