Going Home
A man in the nook
of a tenement door sucks
at the dregs of a cigarette
like a soda straw.
A pack of three in tracksuits
tramp in unison behind
the steel lead of a breedless dog,
slurring dialect.
A child with blond curls huffs
her mouth against the glass window
of a tanning salon, exposing
epiglottis to all of Midlothian.
In yellow holographic jackets,
the road workers reflect
in the windows of sandwich shops
over hot paninis and coffee.
A black taxi drops his occupant
kerbside beside the same man
always on the corner shouting,
"Buy the Big Issue."
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