the traffic-lights change from red to green
although the roads are deserted :
the lights of the fast food outlets
spill out onto the pavement in one
an Asian guy sits behind the counter
watching a tv mounted on the wall :
lit windows break up the monolith
that is a tower-block and
as I watch one light turns on
another off :
life goes on in secret :
on the fourteenth floor
a sleeper dreams
of empty streets
.
Dominic Rivron
.