The Spike or Victoria College Review 1937

In City Trams

In City Trams

Faces in trams are flat and dull
Blunt and hard and sere;
No laughter in red-rimmed eyes.
Bright with a tight-clenched fear.
Pitiful dullards
How could they laugh
Or nakedly swim?
How could they live in the rhythm of love?
In their dumbness they do not desire
They are not aware.