A train trip

 + A Trip +

The trip in this morning
An unhurried pause
Stopping and starting
Waiting for signals
Hesitating at a station
Maybe the driver is just reading
And train slows as he turns page
Be more romantic than
The score of usual excuses
A flood damaged the wiring
All the trains are slow
Drivers are suffering micro-naps
An earlier train was defective
The timetable is badly set
Sun dazzle from the rails
Wild kangaroos blocking tracks
A super villain has stolen the electricity
Aliens reset polarity of the poles
Or meerkats have overthrown humanity
Instead I want an announcement
Loud and heavy with static
To crush all carriage conversation
The driver needs to finish reading bloody Harry Potter
Or the Twilight series
Not erudite readings Greek
No Oedipus or Olympian Gods
Instead a common man
Reading the most common books
Taking us to work
Feeding his non-literary literary addiction
At the same time.