Ha ha ha

I don't know how one tells the difference between the living and the dead
in Croydon

& it's worse since London Overground made it to WC - London Overground,
London's first all-deceased train service. They recruit in the cemeteries
- have a few more weeks in the overground before you fall apart... They
dispose of them after and supply all the pain killers that are needed.

Some of them may have been v nice but anyone is likely to be offcolour -
theyre resurrected not cured, Monkey's Paw stuff - with their problems

Even so, an Overground Train left WC after it had been declared suspended.
What a waste

Last night I got a Sutton train from New Cross Gate. There is no longer
such an animal. When it arrived at NCG, everything said Stand Back, but it
looked warm and half-empty to me and there was a bloke in there saying
It's going to Sutton

So I got on with an animist blowing a whistle and his mate shouting Not in
service.

The doors closed and we went to Sutton

L



On Wed, December 1, 2010 16:39, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Lawrence One of my great grandfathers used to have a horse and cab at
> East
> Croydon -you didn't see his ghost around??
> Took my son six hours to get home six miles last night (and he was
> trying!!) Cheers P
> Ps hope you enjoyed your Diarrhoea Trains perhaps the 'Vacuum help' would
> come in handy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 01 December 2010 16:22
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: snap: spring to summer
>
>
> snowed in in Orpington?
>
> I was on West Croydon station this morning - a scene of arctic
> desolation; so I went upstairs and out into the street - relatively warm,
> snow cleared, trams moving
>
> I went over to East Croydon and was on a train within minutes. Nothing
> had moved at WC for 40 mins
>
> It was difficult to get home last night but not because of being snowed
> in - rather people who love cars had thrown all the snow and ice on the
> road on to the pavements
>
> and everyone is buying up groceries in case the shops run out, thereby
> running the shops out
>
> The Vacuum help us if there is ever a real civil emergency here
>
>
> Diarrhoea Trains must have read the weather forecast as we all did; but
> the snow seems to have come as surprise
>
> L
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, December 1, 2010 16:03, Patrick McManus wrote:
>
>> Max We could do with a bit of sun here! And my son in orpington is
>> snowed in!freezing all day P
>> frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>> rrr rr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>  Behalf Of Max Richards
>> Sent: 30 November 2010 22:57
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: snap: spring to summer
>>
>>
>>
>> Spring to Summer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Shouldering through long grasses
>> my dog sends up clouds of pollen
>>
>> light and bright under morning sun - returns dew-sprinkled
>>
>> from muzzle to tail shivery - to me, nostril-twitching hayfevery.
>>
>> Cicadas! as noonday warms
>> their trees, the raucous chorus begins,
>>
>> invisible cicada-swarms' new concert season -
>>
>> stilled by night, when mosquitoes home in
>>
>> with sleep-denying hum.
>>
>>
>> Max Richards in Melbourne
>> 1 December 2010
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Three poems in Volume 4 Issue 1 'Peripatetica: The Poetics of Walking':
> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
> *
> http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/creativecommons/poems-for-ivor-cutler-3
> http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/cc-the-remixes/the-man-who-finds-himself-
> am using
>
>
> "This is not a time for foolery, or compliments. It may be that both of
> us are within a few minutes of death... And I, at any rate, don't propose
> to die with polite insincerities in my mouth. " C S Lewis - That Hideous
> Strength
> ---
> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
>


-- 
Three poems in Volume 4 Issue 1 'Peripatetica: The Poetics of Walking':
http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
*
http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/creativecommons/poems-for-ivor-cutler-3
http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/cc-the-remixes/the-man-who-finds-himself-amusing


"This is not a time for foolery, or compliments. It may be that both of us
are within a few minutes of death... And I, at any rate, don't propose to
die with polite insincerities in my mouth. "
C S Lewis - That Hideous Strength
---
Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London