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The City

from Life On Land by Joy Ellis

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The City


Dawn

Hear the dull rumble of the city rising
Cold arteries of iron and brick
Pumping the people
Towards the bloodless heart of it.

Blue collars dozing, white collars posing
Shoulder to shoulder with the hipster, the fraudster, the clumsy tourist.
A babble of bird-like tongues waiting for the train,
The sizzle of slow-rolling traffic driving through the rain.


Day

Duelling raconteurs in the Square Mile hustling
Electric money moves and shifts
It barely even exists
Making fortunes blossom and fall.

Lunch in green spaces, quaint little teashop places.
Young executive trying to impress the smirking waitress in the short black dress.
Historic monuments beneath ghettos towering,
Like shiny grey urban orchids flowering.


Dusk

Out comes the West End crowd for dinner and drama
Strutting along the Soho streets
Where the pedestrian is king
And all traffic bows down to him.

Sirens wailing, harshly regaling
The hopeful loners and the boozers, the clubbers and the weary drug users.
Twittering of birds singing ceaseless in the night,
Kept awake by the gaudy neon light.


This is the fabric of my city;
The bold, the bad and the pretty.

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from Life On Land, released November 10, 2017

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Joy Ellis London, UK

Joy Ellis is a pianist, singer and composer based in London. She has toured all over the world playing jazz. Past gig highlights include Ronnie Scott’s, the London Jazz Festival, and No Black Tie Jazz Club in Kuala Lumpur. She was recently selected as one of fourteen emerging artists to work with Mercury-nominated singer ESKA on a composition residency in Manchester. ... more

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