Trains Poem by Don Pearson

Privatisation
Shortage of staff
Emergency repairs
Signal failures
Trains in wrong place
Flooding at Broadstairs.

Burning stubble
Leaves on track
The wrong sort of snow
Death-watch beetle
Swarms of bees
This is the way to go.

Lunar eclipse
Crocodiles
I’ve only just begun
Thinking up reasons
for train delays
Is really rather fun.

Nelly the elephant
Lost her trunk
Ambush by kangaroo
Invaders from Mars
Act of God
Any excuse will do.

Dec 2000