5:32am
walk three avenues if you don't catch the M116 bus
6 train
1 stop
transfer
4 train
3 stops
10 minute walk
deli stop
1 small tea + 1 everything bagel w butter
1 block
"good morning" to the security guards
she won't make eye contact but she'll smile so let that be something
4 flights of stairs
12 of us
in an office for over 6o hours a week
holding each other accountable
holding each other close

You're soaking and you're strung out
but your sleeping bag's been wrung out and
it's wrapped up in a damp rag that you carry in your rucksack

you turn your back on Strutton Ground and you strut off into London' town
like some mad demented peacock, but you're off to rock the Casbah with your crazy words or wisdom which you gleaned from empty matchboxes so very long ago.

The coffee opens early for the bird that scratches daily for a meagre bit of warmth to feed the soul.

and by St Pauls, the ***** of grasping pawnbrokers are gleaming in the frosty air
'pop the weasel ' goes in there quite frequently
you see the emptiness of picture frames in streets you recognise, no names,
because no one would remember them among the worn out suited gentlemen that you became but then it doesn't really matter anymore.

the evening strolls in awkwardly,
but maybe that's just how I see it and
it could be elegantly
I don't know.

and we're back to Strutton Ground not far from Scotland Yard
the new one, the old one's not too far from here and near Trafalgar Square, but you got moved along from there too many times, too many moons and wines ago.

.. and I thought they were smoking, on drugs or just joking when they  were speaking to me

but the blue clouds lingered there,
I had to tear myself away from the balance wheel to feel anything

the tune of time whistled by me
I started singing along
out through the wind tunnel and into the storm.

Form 4 C
back in the classroom and there's a set square on the table
teacher's not able to control me
and I am the truant again

and I thought it normal
the
Informal education

It was prostitution on a grand scale
we were for sale to the future and backed up against the past

But fast and foolhardy I hardly had chance to win at the pool hall before school came to catch me

The balance wheel pivots on the tip of a pin
if I turn and spin or smoke a joint I can almost see the point of it

Just joking
I can't see
nothing but
The
Bogeymen.

Jeg glæder mig bare til at jeg igen har kontrol over mit sind og min krop så jeg kan elske dig ligeså livligt som jeg gør i mit hoved

the shower is on
the water never ceases
and I have to ****