Retirement options for tube trains: #5 Potters Bar

Note the stillness of this Sunday –
the gorse and line-side stream obedient
beneath chill Spring air;
the colourless, shredded bags which no longer
despair on barbed wire fences...

All water wide awake
All earth defenceless

This wheat field on our right –
like a crumpled duvet
would’ve been the last thing
6 of them saw

as they swirled in their
lozenge lottery machine of luck
each of them a number about to be plucked
and read by BBC News.

The bonus ball was the grandma
below the bridge,
hobbling to buy board games,
passing Greggs;
the tumbling oblong from the line above
touching her temple

knocking her dead

the moment Jenga entered her head.