Loneliness in a Hilton Hotel

Ian Beckett MSc
Readers Hope
Published in
Mar 16

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Layover summer poem — too hot for anything except writing this.

Hilton Hotel Madrid 2009 cover of Butterflies for Breakfast ISBN 9781445209616 © Ian Beckett

HILTON HOTEL

Madrid Hilton at 40C feels like hell,
A dry emptiness in a hot new hotel,
Inside is black and white and bare,
Greene and style meet in the atrium,
Tonight it’s “The power and the Glory”,
Next table girl “Blackberries” everyone,
The loneliness of travelling alone,
The reason for a mobile phone.

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Ian Beckett MSc
Readers Hope

Ian is a digital transformation expert who has saved companies over $200m by integrating technologies and diverse global teams effectively— he is a CEO and poet