"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. - W. B. Yeats

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Glasgow

In Glasgow
all the coffee-shops close at five.

And the weary workers-
the cumbersome commuters-
hop the trains home to suburbia.

In Glasgow
the city is empty by half-five.

The occasional penguin-footed businessman runs by-
"late again, the missus'll have me!"

In Glasgow, the station is full to the brim at half-six,
Pulling away in a hot-sauna car,
and the city whispers to itself,
"alone at last."

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