I used to work at a cinema

In Notting Hill Gate

And now occasionally

Watch a new webcam

Situated near the tube station

My memories of the cinema

Still fill me with happiness

Life was so easy then

Then things changed

As things tend to do

If this webcam

Is to be believed

Then my Notting Hill

Has changed for the worst

It is busier and now

Much more threatening

If is unlikely that I will return

My cinema has closed

And I have lost contact

With my passing friends

It is all very sad

But something

That has remained constant

Is the sound

Of my washing machine

Working silently

After six in the morning

I programme it that way

As I like to wake up

To its gentle and soothing hum

Especially during

The darker months

This has not changed

Since my days

At number forty six

And like then

I still find it comforting