The Commuters
Our Ikea-padded cells
should guard us from self-harm –
but instead they fuck with us
in cubes of coupled calm
Each of us fitfully sleeps
in our over-familiar beds –
we pick at our clipped wings
feathering empty nests
We rise to expected alarms –
our daily rude refrain –
to stumble without consciouness –
to queue for time-warped trains
In cattle trucks we stand and sway –
our iprods poke our eyes –
blinding us from seeing
the pastures passed outside
London Bridge – we rise to screams
as the wheels rub on the track –
we shuffle from the shouldered stalls –
spewed out – we can’t turn back