Author: Cameron Aitken.

The chivalrous hour wanes when home commences;

fugacious cities forget, while the train

nervously repeats the grovelling leitmotif;

and signals all, with incandescent rigour,

to recognise such sketches of defeat

but not to shape opprobrious conceit.

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The misery of parked cars, provoking the wind

with forgotten flutes flowing between winsome folds,

eagerly disrupting silent thoughts

and the indolence of reputable people:

contemplative of fawning indecision —

subterfuge defined by strong elision.

(5^th September 2021)

Author: Cameron Aitken. Cameron is a First Class English Literature Graduate and Jazz Musician. He loves poetry and philosophy, and has a background in literary theory. He is also interested in psychoanalysis, and thinks about films through this lens. He is an Early Modernist at heart.