City by Fassbinder

Samaritans Poetry Window 2009

The City ⓒFassbinder 2009

The city shapes you:

Square mile
Scaffolders poles
Pattern facades
Borders

Round of drinks
Triangle of Bizarre Love
Curved life.

Oval to
Mornington Crescent or
Belsize Park then
Bendy Bus and
Circle Line
Black taxi with its turning circle
Traffic Cones snake around

The Gherkin.

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Life’s a wreck
Tangled up in The City.