[New-Poetry] People Get on the Poetry Train

[Anny Ballardini]

it would be funny if I put into verse my experience. We were traveling with a bunch of teenagers from Eastbourne to London. Finally in London I got up first to lead the group and when the train stopped I tried to open the door, looked for a push-button, none, looked for a handle, nothing, looked around and some kids were as stupefied as I was, when finally and elderly man pushed through, pulled down the window, leaned out, and opened the door from the only outside handle.
This not longer than 6 or 8 years ago.

Re.:
'Worst’ rail firm goes from bad to verse"

I think they are competing with the Italian one. 
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  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2253768.ece
  >From The TimesAugust 14, 2007
  'Worst’ rail firm goes from bad to verseAlan Hamilton 

  E-mail your poem about trains and railways to books at thetimes.co.uk- we'll publish a selection of them on this page
  Britain’s worst-performing train company has hired a poet to soothe the tempers of its frustrated customers. 

  First Great Western, which operates services from Paddington to South Wales and the West Country, insisted yesterday that its decision to engage Sally Crabtree, a Cornish poet, to perform at selected stations over the next four days had nothing to do with its poor punctuality record, disclosed in The Times yesterday. 

  Crabtree, known in artistic circles as “the pink-wigged pocket Venus from Cornwall”, bravely caught a First Great Western train from Penzance yesterday in the hope that it would deliver her to Reading for her first platform performance this morning. 


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