Walking the dog <br />through autumn's first mist <br />I noticed <br />five strangers <br />at the bus stop <br /> <br />A young female <br />in school uniform <br />awkwardly <br />studying her shoes <br /> <br />Three skinny youths <br />staring purposefully <br />and separately <br />straight ahead <br /> <br />And an elderly man <br />bespectacled and brief-cased <br />peering myopically up the road <br /> <br />As I passed this group of silent commuters <br />five pairs of eyes averted their gaze <br /> <br />And without warning <br />a local kookaburra <br />laughed uproariously...<br /><br />Alison Cassidy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/silent-commuters/
