I walked on Primrose. It was Dusk. On the hill that here
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I walked on Primrose.
It was Dusk.
On the hill that here
is called just — Hill.
A steam engine hooted
Out of sirens
and set off downhill,
scattering dogs out of
mothballed
Victorian villas,
where news hung down
from the terraces,
that soon everything again
would shut.
Here they love to look
at the houses in the dark —
they seem,
like those dreams —
distant.
They were built,
so they say,
in those Times,
when
London didn't know
what
a virus's wild
Colic is.
And glinting in
the silence
are their lights,
like someone else's
stingy tear
for your
never-accomplished
feats.
You walk in the night —
Alone —
and search for yourself
and try
to remember
your friends' names,
so as to
reserve
the dust-covered
in the restaurant
tables.