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Thread #113211 Message #2455666
Posted By: WalkaboutsVerse
02-Oct-08 - 12:47 PM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
(NOT the Weekly Walkabout)
Poem 19 of 230: JET
With time-based rail passes,
As many youth still do,
I caught the trains through Europe -
A good time it was, too.
But, late one night in summer,
I ran full-on in vain,
Through quiet streets in Paris,
To catch the London train.
And, at that Paris station,
They closed the doors throughout,
For cleaning through the morning,
Insisting - stragglers out.
So it was that a few of us
Spent the night on the street,
And, I do declare to you,
It left young me dead beat.
Yet there are many stragglers,
Within the human domain,
Spending all their nights as such -
While others own a plane!
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