Monday 02 April 2012
glancing through the gap
between the seats
I see the highlighted words in the book
“what is your experience of clinical governance?”
across the aisle
another girl tests her feet
where someone else will sit
she splits her time
between applying copious layers of lipbalm
and communication with unseen friends
by strange repetitive movements
of her thumbs
the tight-lipped female announcer
alerts us to approaching danger
“please mind the gap
between the train and the platform edge”
one schoolgirl holds a mirror
for another to review her Monday coiffure
while the guard, like a gaoler
jangles his keys
as he walks the length of the train
a double-buggy
one child slung below another
vies for space with two expensive cycles
and business men with retro-fitted rucksacks
hide behind financial news
what do they see
when they glance at my face, my clothes
and watch me scribble indecipherable words
in a small black notebook?
C r a f t y P e o p l e ---- confessions of a lapsed reader 
Friday, August 24, 2012 at 3:20
You really make it seem so easy with your presentation but I find
this matter to be really something that I think I would never understand.
It seems too complicated and very broad for me. I am looking forward for your next post, I’ll try to get the hang of it!