Poem of the week: Small Change by Carole Satyamurti

‘This must be the room of last resort’ … a homeless person at Westminster tube station. Photograph: James Veysey/Rex/Shutterstock

Small Change

This must be the room of last resort,
this half-lit passage under the dripping bridge
where, on the only route to the Underground,
you pass four, sometimes more, rough sleepers
strung out at intervals against the wall,