Going Home
The day security cameras
that caught her carelessly
knocking over someone else's
parked and rusted bicycle
and just riding fast away
also caught someone else
walking a bike (apparently)
very much the wrong way
in a wrong lane too slowly
thinking about a busted chain
the recent unexpected prize
and all the favourable reviews
of his compassionate first book
"True to our difficult age"
and sure to neither one
were any sanctions applied
spring now salting new
growth on pruned trees
the day security cameras
switched off for the night.
Orwell would approve!
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