Smiling with you on our way :-)
Andrew
On 19 February 2014 19:54, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Modernity
>
>
> Sliding past the cafe window,
> a 'next generation tram' -
>
> sleek, shiny, streamlined,
> maybe more straps to hang on
>
> than seats to ride smoothly on -
> so modern I feel it's no
>
> tram for me. Yet - 'modern'?
> Does modern stay modern?
>
> Where I live, our apartment's
> part of a Streamline Moderne
>
> building, nineteen thirty-seven.
> I too date from that year,
>
> since when it's been for me a ride
> smooth enough in a good seat
>
> (the world's notorious troubles
> mostly ignorable elsewhere).
>
> Slack, stooping, shambling,
> with senior's concession,
>
> I watch the commuters
> debouch at the terminus,
>
> homeward bound for tea.
> Sunset, and one last tram for me,
>
> and may I reach my terminus
> and disembark smilingly.
>
--
Andrew
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