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Scene on a bus
Written after I arrived at work this morning.On the bus a greying civil servant
Clutches his strap with the grip of a drowning man.
Tears streak his cheeks,
Flooding from behind dark glasses
That protect his eyes from the sun
And the bovine gaze of strangers.
In his hand, an iPhone.
On its screen
A black-haired little girl
Screams forever in red shoes.