This poem is taken from Stand 212, 14(4) December 2016 - February 2017.

Martin Reed Three Poems
The Test

After the usual one for the road
to see off another working week,
the half mile trip past the viaduct,

right off the roundabout, out along Spennels,
a left and straight home. But a pulsing blue signal
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