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Piccadilly Line

A Poem by:

Eithne Cavanagh

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Sshlunk... clunk... sshlunk

I am Jonah inside

a flatulent reptile.

I study ancestral maps

landscape of faces

each a citadel

Jamaica Connemara Pakistan.

 

            Piccadilly, Leicester Square

            long way to Kingston Town

            and he's never been there.

 

The reptile hisses and farts

shunting scions

from far flung latitudes.

All inhale the same foul air

scrambled humanity's

painful stress

garlicsweatdustyfilofax

 

            and I crave a cleansing

            rain, wet heather, the haunting call

            of grouse above Glencree.

 

... or even the melee of

Oxford Street.

 

Eithne Cavanagh
Copyright © 2002


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