Ashburn Court
2026
I don't mind the city
on its quiet nights
sure, it's grey, noisy and brutal
there's always someone
yelling in silence,
or plain yelling
but it's never dull
you can often find
a window to peep through
twin arches, twin doors,
fifteen on each side makes thirty
and the red brick on SW7
makes it kind of okay, for a second,
and then when it's no longer a quiet night
or maybe it wasn't, or it still is,
when a bike is about to run you over
or a mouse jumps at your feet
as you walk the street,
as you hammer the pavement,
then it turns again into the monster,
the misery maker, the bottomless pit
that this city really is.
if it weren't for the trees
I don't think I'd ever come back
to this city that I've willingly given
sad as it is
the best years of my life.