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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, humour, iphone, ipod, poetry, trains, travel, UK poet, Yorkshire poet
I’m at the station,
feeling impatient,
wanting to get on my way.
Announcement says,
there’s been delays,
engineering works causing affray.
The platform’s changed,
I’m turning deranged,
as I sprint to platform eight.
I just catch my train,
(these connections a pain)
we finally get on our way.
A seat on my own,
I pull out my tome,
absorbed in a classic romance.
‘til the people alight,
someone sits by my side,
with ipod and ears plugged in.
I huff and I puff,
at the jangly stuff,
a tinny annoying old din.
Mr Darcy must wait,
as distracted, I hate
to gaze through the window instead.
I seethe and I fume,
unintelligible tunes,
wishing their batteries were dead!
© The i’s and Ears 02.03.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
Most Humorous, Senior Superlatives, Fayetteville High School, 1960 (Photo credit: North Carolina Digital Heritage Center)
