Valentine's Day 2017

Chelmsford Railway station

Upline

Shivering bodies, self-compiling in clusters

Along the cold grey dais    

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Onto stiletto City trains

Driven into its core

Un-anticipating

We unhappy few

We band of breathers

Esprit de corpses

The 05:58 arrives and un-clots

The platform blotches

Replaced in moments by tickets

For the 06:10

If ever our hearts had

Been as syncopated, this rose

Would be on the 06:25

And the thorn on the 06.40