through Reading and the Thames Water head quarters
full optimistic at this point
speciality teas available at the buffet car situated in coach F
next the Environment agency
cloud cover by O Yuki
liminal spaces
zones without people
corporate exotica
manufactured ambience
uk endless

a little coppice on top
a rolling hill a plain
like an island
now we are not united
now great no longer
Tokyo Adagio
the children of empire
now old

then the Daily Mail building
slides by
it is grey and featureless
like its readers
ploughed corn fields the last remnants of summer
the faded corn stubs against the brown earths mud
clouds on the horizon hang like
distant shoals of opaque jellyfish
their tentacles draping the autumn horizon
an incessant chatterbox behind me
a golden age of decay
a new empire
as spirit of eden plays