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Poem of the week: Business Breakfast by Adrian Green.
On a blue September dawn
the tide ebbs under London Bridge.
We walk across - a crowd
alive but hypnotised.
So many left undead
for croissants and cappuccino.
And in the knowing,
unknowing,
and knowing again
of things we never
thought would matter,
breakfast sages
read our fortunes
in the coffee spoons,
project their fantasies
on office walls.
Later, on the Circle Line
the salesmen with their laptops
watch a couple sharing sushi
from a plastic box.
About the poet
Adrian Green is a poet from Southend, Essex, who submitted this piece as a contribution to the forthcoming Morning Star Well versed anthology.
He is currently secretary of the Southend Poetry Group and has published two previous pamphlets. His latest collection Chorus and Coda is available now published by the Littoral Press.
John Rety of Hearing Eye Press and Torriano Meeting House is a former editor of anarchist paper Freedom.