Wednesday, January 2, 2008

NEIGHBOURHOOD



The graveyard silence

Who can imagine it ?

Who has been through it ?

Come tell me if I’m right


It all begins with murmurs

As ghosts begin to gather

For the eight hourly show

In the freezing cold rooms


All heads bowed

Hiding the contoured faces

Only the soundless shuffling

Of heads and pens and lips


Then bells and clanks and rustlings

Familiar cries from screens

The great fall of a pin

From the busy Jack’s table

Such yokes of white collar !


Oh Lord have mercy !

On these whispering souls

Is this a jungle of books

Or a place of work

The place for active minds ?


Different folks, different strokes

Come with me to see

A better place to be

Where iron’s cry abounds

In their various grounds


Where every vender’s voice

Collide in a bedlam

In vendoral mastery

Of the daily bread race


Come with me to see

The accelerated engines

Trailed by accelerated heels

Responding to accelerated voices

All streaks of blue collar!


Irons sharpening irons

Irons bounding woods

Irons searing bones

In the vendible arena

A perfect place to be?

1 comment:

orantimi said...

Different yokes for different folks. Work place means different thing to different people. However, no matter what it means to different folks, i believe it should be an interesting place to be.