The business meeting dealt with the business
The express train dealt with the journey home
Then comes the time that is, for some, hardest
How to pass time usefully on your own
The teenage wasteland where nothing was grown
The bitter, fruitless taste, the frittered age
Of youth descending in stages, outgrown
By useful truth unknown, useless knowledge
Acquired at home. But the time to engage
Approached; reproached by twin sex and success
Dragged out of bed, drugged, into new beds thrown
Alone no more, but still I turned the page
Sought company from books that cost me less
Than people; brought me peace in crowded home
Tue 22 July 2008
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