Cumbersome crimson carriers
fashioned from rusty metal
individually numbered like
prisoners, or slaves.

Cobbled streets rumble and
Victorian buildings shudder
at the diesel consuming vermin
with most important schedules.

Polluters of the air with their
sick and leaden attitudes
trust, money all gobbled up
people spat onto the floor.

Facilitators of travel or
simple commuter frustrators?
Squeeze them all in, who cares?
All of them held to ransom.