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Walter Poe
Senior Member

since 1999-10-13

Posts 787

0 posted 2001-04-27 05:47 AM

Sitting on the number 16
Trundling along gravel paved streets
my mind blank like a fresh clean sheet
'theres room up top' the conductor says
as can plain be seen

past the graveyard at which i stare
at all the ghosts living there
past the park and all the hares
my mind wanders to tigers and bears

Along over dead mans wharf
and over jumpers bridge
stories conjured in my mind
room up top for anything i find

Past the old abandoned rail
where the brave kids play
daring dares along the tracks
After the light of the day

Along the back streets
and around the house
and hungry vampire feed
on cat, man and mouse.

Past the tracks, men in macs
huddled round the pond
sell the secrets of the land
while ducks eat from their hands

Past hangmans pike
and deadmans dyke
and through haunted wood
i sit and watch undead stalk the neighbourhood

along evergreen road
and highstreet east, on into the town
my journeys nearly at its end
as everyone climbs down.

I arrive on time as the 16 pulls in
stopping right outside the building
that i am working in
I love my job here at the ministry

The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

1 posted 2001-04-27 04:56 PM

Smiling here Walter..and methinks there's always room at the top for YOU! So...BTT you go! love your work.

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

2 posted 2001-04-27 05:05 PM

Is no. 16 a train? at any rate, I like this a lot. Joyce

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2001-04-27 11:41 PM

Hmm..No. 16 is either a train, or a tram...

but an excellent read, nonetheless....

Balladeer

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

4 posted 2001-04-27 11:54 PM

sounds like a hell of a town, Walter

Walter Poe
Senior Member

since 1999-10-13

Posts 787

5 posted 2001-04-30 11:47 AM

16 is supposed to be a Bus if anyone cares

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