<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=541635" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>5 Pm On The 56</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Five o’clock on the fifty-six, <br>A mix<br>Of humanity on board<br>On Essex Road.<br>Some half-asleep and meditating, <br>Hesitating<br>Just before their stop<br>Outside the closed-down Charity Shop.<br>The London Paper tends to<br>Set the agenda<br>For some, while others might<br>Prefer London Lite<br>Interspersed with crude lads’ mags<br>Cheap rags, Harrod’s carrier bags<br>The office-opiated masses track<br>Their weary way back<br>To home<br>A few, lone<br>Still-awake chatterers<br>Batter us<br>With tedious conversations<br>About their occupations<br>Punctuated by time-worn, hackneyed ringtones<br>From mobile phones<br>Thought-processes have ceased to function<br>Approaching Dalston Junction<br>Zombified, the humdrum herd<br>Rest, interred<br>In their self-isolation<br>Of non-communication.<br>Sitting senselessly sedated<br>In unmitigated<br>Dullness from the drudgery of daily life, <br>Cowed by commercial strife<br>Till, disgorged as the bus<br>Spills its guts<br>They fumble their way aimlessly, <br>Namelessly<br>Over the doormats<br>Of their dingy maisonettes and flats.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=C.+Richard+Miles">C. Richard Miles</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=541635" data-title="5 Pm On The 56 de C. Richard Miles" data-description="Five o’clock on the fifty-six, A mix Of humanity on board On Essex Road. Some half-asleep and meditating, Hesitating Just before their stop Outside the closed-down Charity Shop. The London Paper tends to Set the agenda For some, while others m..."></div> </div> </div>

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