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[tarmac touch supply chain shackle
dead land sprung mixing
business flow pleasure
cargo fed artery drip
conurbation
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misplaced motor-way expansion
catharsis false anatomy
road sweep strategy
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Wednesday 9th January 2013 5:33 pm
The City
I am on a crowded
city sidewalk,
the crowd sgueezes,
shoves and pushes.
Like blood through
a too small artery.
Claustrophobia threatens
to swallow me.
A small opening appears,
I rush to it. But it quickly
fills in and once again,
the crowd squeezes, shoves
and pushes.
I reach my desti...
Wednesday 21st March 2012 3:40 pm
Can You Hear The People Sing?
They dwell in strange rooms
the murky recesses of affordability
barely buildings, bedrooms with sinks
chair pushed up against the door
flakes of lives flung everywhere
A curtain, a quilt - who can really say?
A bare bulb hangs in an open window
no shade inside from day or night
Still lives go on; the rudimentary,
ramshackle, clutching at homeliness
the need for shelter unites us all
A hotel, a shed - who ca...
Wednesday 22nd February 2012 3:25 pm
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