Thanks, Jill and Alison. Things can get a little hairy on that particular
train -- should have known better and waited for the next one.
I must admit, for a moment or two I wondered about trying to calm things
down by reading aloud from the book of Jane Hirshfield's poems I'd bought at
the reading. Her work has a quality of calm attentiveness about it, of the
sort I associate with Denise Levertov. It might *just* have worked! but I'd
have been far more likely to get my teeth smashed in, so regret to say I
chickened out.
best joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jill Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: Tangled, Snap
> My sympathies Joanna. Sounds like the train from Marrickville to city most
> days. You get used to it - but, gosh, some days you just don't need it. I
> bet that bloke turns up on our line one day.
>
> Best,
> Jill
>
>
> On Thursday, October 27, 2005, at 01:19 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
>
>> My, Joanna! - it sounds like the train to Werribee -
>>
>> I've often thought that a major problem with politicians is that they
>> don't
>> use public transport. They would understand society better if they did.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> A
>>
>> On 27/10/05 9:24 AM, "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, a bit discombobulated at the moment. Went up to Newcastle this
>>> evening to hear Jane Hirshfield read, which was a marvellous experience.
>>> On
>>> the way back two different sets of drunks, one violent and the other
>>> merely
>>> very loud, had to be taken off the train by police at two different
>>> stations. The loudest confided, fortissimo, that he was a Geordie (i.e.
>>> from
>>> Tyneside) Irishman who lived in the Village in New York, where he was a
>>> policeman who had killed ten men, and if the man he decided to sit next
>>> to
>>> didn't confess he would burn him. The guard asked me if I was all right
>>> (they were in the seat behind me), and when I said I thought so, he
>>> disappeared for the next half-hour. Talk about an evening of contrasts!
>>
>>
>>
>> Alison Croggon
>>
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>>
>>
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