in all it's authorial imprecision and otherwise:
<http://www.deaddrunkdublin.com/poems/robert_marcacci/slow-trains_south.html
>
--
Bob Marcacci
Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back.
- Steven Wright
> From: Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:05:17 +1100
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Conversation: Gares and handy phrase
> Subject: Gares and handy phrase
>
> Let's hear some more good railway poems.
>
> And please
>
>> Learned to say "I need to have sex with you right now" in French.
>
> can the French phrase be supplied?
>
> Other languages also, Finnish, American...
>
> On 29/3/08 1:02 AM, "Nathan Hondros" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I love that city. Espcially the chocolat chaud. I have one about a different
>> station:
>> Uneasy at Gare du Nord
>>
>>
>> each hour is a fragment of the next; you wait,
>>
>> loosening your accord with the world;
>>
>>
>> its nothing more than the uneasiness of
>>
>> contradiction (for no moment really relates to another)
>>
>>
>> because the woman you watch scrubbing
>>
>> the wall reveals herself with the coarse brush
>>
>>
>> and now you recall her luminous detail (at this
>>
>> later unrelated moment) as you sense the familiar chair,
>>
>>
>> the white rail of the empty page, the cold,
>>
>> and the nearness of freshly brewed coffee.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sonnet: On the Way to Gare St. Lazare
>>>
>>> Missed my train and had to wait five minutes for the next one.
>>> Enjoyed a brioche with marmalade at the Irish pub.
>>> Planned a Japanese meal with Mike and the rest of the guys (and gals).
>>> Fell asleep briefly in a bar so dark one could easily fall asleep in it.
>>>
>>> Learned to say "I need to have sex with you right now" in French.
>>> Got up late again this morning. Haven't been sleeping well.
>>> Met Georgina and that Corsican guy at the Louvre.
>>> Stayed inside because of the rain. All-day rain. Again.
>>>
>>> Went to check emails. Nothing from home.
>>> Wandered over to the art school to meet my friends.
>>> Had another chocolat chaud. That must be thirty or so now.
>>> Started to catch up on my reading. Again. New book this time.
>>>
>>> Got some food at a lovely restaurant with purple and red chairs.
>>> Sat inside, hopping outside to take photos.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hal
>>>
>>> Halvard Johnson
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>>>
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