Saturday, May 11, 2013

7 AM on a Working Saturday


Dry city dust has settled on days,
Poetry lost among blazing computer screens,
Eaten by crawling traffic millipedes.

Time has stretched long, grown limp and loose like an old guitar string,
Between weary water cooler jokes and humourless cubicle gods,
Roaring generators and sticky moist skin,
An unsettling complacency and a restless calm.
Too slow, too fast, stuck yet pacing.
 Under the unrelenting sun, a sepia yellow has crept into the world.

Far away,
The monsoon showers of my childhood, a memory.
Pothole fish, a summer dream.

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