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Sitting on sleepers

A dull day

underneath the underneath of my motorway I walk my path to New Birmingham

Fishing for bits of tat for this and that to keep safe in my pocket till later I can sit and look at it.

Above me spin spaghetti threads toward someplace else Empty and quiet like here and there and

everywhere I know That has nobody in it.

I look at my watch – 1 – time for getting on quick

I slip alongside the cutting, the rails, the canal, the curved asphalt meanders and trails toward the station where my trains sleep in ward rows, doors gaping open like birthday cards.

I perch on my spotting spot and look at the stopped clock – 1:23 and some seconds fast. Enough time just once upon

To get a quick coffee from the buffet and read the timetable fast.

And look at my bits of tat and tit, a ball a bag and some string. A fine hoard for a dull day with no one about I can

Lay it all out, 1, 2, 3, I can sing out loud like a 125 ‘Clickety clack,

down on the track, 1, 2, 3,

Tat and that.’

I drop the string and the ball and the bag and climb down to sit on sleepers and count my things.


February 4, 2015