Our train took what seemed like forever to leave behind the ad-plastered smoke-stained downtown that was January and navigate at not much more than a slow trot – certainly nowhere near a gallop – the endless back gardens and washing lines of February By the first gloomy fields of early March we’d picked up speed …
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Coffee cools at a predictable rate
Coffee cools at a predictable rate from the moment it’s first placed beside my bed Way before my befuddled brain can command an arm to find the smartphone and check the time sensitive lips are able to say how long it’s taking – to struggle from sleep to morn © Daniel Stephens, 2019
Self Service Checkout
I’m afraid you’ll have to wait the Self-Service Checkout Assistant apologised These two are out of order and this one has an elderly lady stuck in it She has the front of the till open and is guarding it until the engineer can come Let me see, I offer I always unblock the photocopiers at …