INVISIBLE WORKERS

Another poem inspired by my days in Abu Dahbi. It is self explanatory. 

such a vacant highway

six lanes of no traffic

my early morning flight

requires this pre-dawn drive

beyond a wire fence

on a service road

coach after square functional coach

head in the opposite direction

just the movement of invisible workers

towards a city that cannot run without them

I had some difficulty shaping the poem. At times I get lost in the frame, that part of the writing that leads you into the poem, the explanatory lines. While these are useful to the poet they add nothing to the poem. It took me some time to pare the words back to the essential.

I thought I'd leave you with I Am The Walrus. I first saw this on Boxing Day in 1967. It has lost none of its majesty.

Until next time.