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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