Yes, this bears the time it takes to turn the tables and try for something
more positive. But did you actually interup the tea and bacon butties? We
know Thomas stopped at Adlestrop but we are not sure if it was as he said
entirely. Very good poem Bob. In line with what I've seen in your
collection. Hope you got the CD OK.
bw
James
>From: Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Before Sunrise, I Consider...
>Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:10:51 +0000
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>Before Sunrise, I Consider When Waking
>
>that today on the 7-22 from Gypsy Lane to Newcastle
>I’m going to sit and listen and hear the bulk of the man
>who gets on at Hartlepool, whose breathing’s loud
>as everything he says, whose laugh’s as heavy
>as the scuffed NIKE sports bag he always unzips
>while he coughs and rummages for the flask of tea -
>where each cup’s so sweet, so strong, we all can smell it -
>and his bacon butties, always well wrapped in silver foil
>in his tupperware container with the loudest of lids,
>and his chewed up comments about Sunderland’s midfield,
>the woeful - and he always repeats the word, woeful – defence,
>
>but I won’t let him talk about that. No, I’ll interrupt, ask
>about things we may share, an understanding of cats
>or garden birds, or the smell of sleeping children, and how
>we rarely listen to the way silence can fill us with wonders
>that belong to looking at paintings, or hearing music
>as it replaces the sight of an orchestra in our heads,
>and how at night, so many miles apart, we might stand
>at some open back door gazing at nothing
>but clouds as they hurry overhead, with the empty breeze
>maybe seeping through the fence, and then shapes
>half-seeable in the darkness that seem like us to belong.
>
>Bob Cooper
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