Tom C Dylan

First Day Back Syndrome

After a week in the Spanish sunshine 

the Monday morning alarm

kicks my door down

like armed police

with a warrant for my arrest.

I throw my arms in the air

insisting I\'ll come quietly.

And it\'s back to work,

like an escaped prisoner

being dragged back to his cell,

I\'m back in the confines of the office,

my orange jump-suit

a shirt and tie.

By ten o\'clock I\'m on my

third cup of tea,

Spain and the week before

seems like

a million miles away

and a decade ago.