black coffees circulate
and stimulate
in a Camberwell corner of Turkey
where cameras capture
the breakfast talk
of locality and banishment
of stigmas and status
of spaces and voices
groups groping for airtime
playtime
our time
training and trading
linking and learning
a hundred tongues
migrating to microphones.
© Paul Taylor 2005
Southwark Hour programme 1: spontaneous poem
This was the first poem for the series, and describes the panel discussion at Tadim Cafe in Camberwell.
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