Rave's off

Now that most people use laptops

trains aren’t allowed to have windows anymore.

People with beards wouldn’t type so loudly

if they knew their computer was in danger of being dangled

out of the window by someone saying a zinger like

“oops, clumsy me,” as the screen smashes on the track behind them

and they scream ‘My laptop! My unbacked up Excel sheets!

My redrafted best man speech! My Garage Band piano tracks!

My Borussia Dortmund Football Manager saved game!

My sex tapes! My submission to the Bridport Prize!

My photographs of Gabriella’s baby! My grandson’s homework!

My gallery of Microsoft Paint dogs!’