Saturday, 8 August 2020

Kids and trains

 


Kids want to be train drivers 

Steaming through town and country

Black soot now wiped from their faces

Engine whistling on dark nights

Clatters through 'til break of day

Now crossing plains to the bay


Then as a youth I fancied painting

A career with brush in hand

Sketching nudes on my easel

With me daubing on the paint

To show work in gallery

With a names that's legendary


Perhaps I'll dance the tango

With maiden with raven hair

As others watch with envy

This cute professional pair

Bodies close and backs full sway

Dancing all the night away


But some choose to take up law

By proving that black is white

Forever telling their truth

To flatten the other side

Putting case in dustbin

Wanting nothing but to win


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3 comments:

  1. At times it feels like there are so many choices - i wonder how many are feasible..i think i would take the train

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  2. Careers. Callings. Whatever you call them. So many choices! Most of us just stumble into one and stay there. And you?

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    1. Curiously when in sixth form I was asked by a school governor if I'd like to work for him. I grabbed the chance and was never out of a job after that. The lnogest I was out of work was sailing from Britain to Australia with family to see what find there and got a job within a week!

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