Sunlight is clinging, yellow spit

Raining down upon your faces.

You are the living cuspidors of day.

Dirt, its teasing ghost, dust,

And passionless kicks of steel, fill you.

Flowers sprouting near the tracks,

Brush their lightly odoured hands

In vain against your stale jackets of sweat.

Within you, minds and hearts

Are snoring to the curt rhythm of your breath.