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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 >>> ================ >>> [log in to unmask] >>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html >>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com >>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com >>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org >>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html >>> > > --