Russell Christie


SPEEDCITY BUSKER

Beneath Eros' stolen arrow a drummer works
to milk the hardened tourist stone of change
through Piccadilly's walled-in flood of light
fidgeting with wing-nuts, he prepares his set
tensioning skin within the stirring cauldron's sound.

As though invaded by the city, his pace sustained,
giving palsied nod to eyes donating change.

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