For your own safety
Change here.
The next station
Will be exit only.
You have a vital role
to play,
beds, sofas and furniture
loafers.
The station is Kentish Town.
A Northern Line train terminating at
High Barnet.
18/05/2018
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It feels like a lifetime ago that many of us who jostled through the London commute have done so. Instead of being restricted by movement in crowded carriages and crowded, interlinking corridors, we’ve been restricted to our homes and localities. Uncannily, in the continuing circumstances,
You have a vital role
beds, sofas and furniture
loafers.
In the times of commuting, these were the siren images of posters advertising comfort and respite to our underslept selves.
—
This poem is from Jangle between Jangle, a collection of verse written while jangling to-and-fro across London during the commute.
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