trainspotting

 

 

it starts on a railway platform

or at least it nearly

or so often does

a chance encounter

with an enchanting chancer

a brief encounter

counting chances

but it always ends in

tear tracks

on the train tracks

emotions shunted

sobbing in the siding

 

some fat controller

or boiler stoker

gives vent to clouds of steam

while true love emerges

a soft boiled

three minute dream

its a haze of uncertainty

a daze of away-days

and lost time at tables

reading time tables

train-station afternoons

listening to the throbbing beat

boiling in the steaming heat

 

anoraked and ready for love

 

trainspotting.

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