Poetic licence
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For a legal secretary
In a sunny London square
A symphony in lettuce
and ricotta
The splintered light of lime trees
Dash auburn in her hair
Which winter months
Had rendered terracotta
As a barrister from Brighton
On a lunch break from a case
Regards her from a seat
beside a tree
And entertains a fancy
More tender than obscene
While finishing his double BLT
All across the strumming city
The office kids break out
The jokers and the brokers
and the stallions
The Bridgets and the fidgets
And the blue-chip femme fatales
Who crowd the Pret-a-Mangers
and Italians
For their tuna salad mayos
Their crab sticks and their ham
On granary, on white
or pumpernickel
Go heavy on the gherkins
But easy on the cheese
And hold the Thousand Island
and the pickle
As the pigeons mug the pavements
For crumbs of crab and Quorn
And clog the streets and squares
in dense committee
With tikka, thai, tandoori and more exotic tones
The sandwich trade comes dancing
to The City
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