LONDON DREAM

a london place 
  recurs 
  in dreams -

all its tourist places
all its famous places

stand in a single
convenient 
accessible 
postcard row

everybody is living
in one single 
immense
condensed
block of concrete flats

~

& it is a dark town
its bad fingers beckoning
across the slum pub bridges

across
the
red bus 
orange gravel 
parade square 

~

my shortcut home
everytime is always 
down on the tube tracks

me & the commuters down there

the rats down at our feet

the
trains
closing
in

ominous & scream-loud

~

i wake up

still down there

in danger 
in trouble
down there 

in the dark
down there

in recurring london dreams

from londonist.com