Continued to Read - original poem by David Pike.wmv

Continued to Read

'It's all over now,
you can get back to normal,'
said the lady of the night
as she closed the Velcro fastener
on her easy access knickers

So he slid from her knee
to jump start a rotavator,
and with mind in neutral
ploughed through marble paving stones
of the mortuary car park

The sun shone down
(it never shone up),
and caressed the willowy outline
of a half inflated gasometer,
the gasometer quivered and emitted a sigh;
Then a cap wearing official
handed the sun a writ
for unpaid council tax,
the sun staggered
as it prised open a meter
and extracted a foreign coin;
(the light went out)

On the embankment
a diesel locomotive
scanned a dog-eared notebook
through oil smeared spectacles
and nodded sagely
as three hundred people
sprinted from the tunnel;
'that will be the 7.05
delayed at Dunbar subway,'
she mused between gasps
before logging briefcase numbers
with a felt tipped pen

'What was that all about?'
Said the Chinese bus passenger
to his acne covered companion,
who was twiddling knobs
on his high tech hearing aid,
'Buggered if I know,' he replied
but continued to read.

© David Pike, 1993. From DP's 1993 book of poems, On the Ridge

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