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A Recollection of a Train at the Worthing Central Level Crossing in the Historic County of Sussex

Most people think the town of Worthing in County of Sussex
Is not so interesting and full of old folks, dried-up wrecks
Awaiting Grim Reaper's visit with his merciful scythe;
Worthing's Big Event the cleansing of public toilets causing tums to writhe
Bringing odours strong enough to ensure catastrophic
Mass retching and pumping out of breakfast in puddles of sick.

But tragedy struck at the level crossing when the 7.29
Came choo-chooing two hours late down the railway line;
My half-blind stone-deaf transvestite toothless Great Uncle Bert
Was midway across when the mighty loco caused him fatal hurt
By squashing him flat as a three foot diameter Diabolo Pizza
Resembling the genocide in wartorn Srebrenica.

O what a mess was there for all to see at that awful time;
This unfair world has no justice, reason or rhyme.
Great Uncle Bert met his untimely unexpected doom
And all that was left to put into his pauper's tomb
Were lumps of shapeless flesh and a chunk of his gullet
But at least I salvaged from the mess his well-filled wallet.

About This Poem

Last Few Words: Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! went the whistle.....

Style/Type: Structured: Western

Review Request Direction: What did you think of my title?
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Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: London, Culture Capital of the World

Favorite Poets: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Chaucer, Shakespeare to name but a few. And VERY IMPORTANTLY: Erich Fried, a leftwing Austrian of Jewish ancestry who fled the Nazis and became a British citizen in 1949., And, other writers (non-poets mainly): Raymond Chandler, Irvine Welsh, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Charles Bukowski, John le Carré, Anthony Horowitz, Mick Herron, Margaret Attwood, Edna O'Brian, Maeve Binchy., Writers who I find vastly over-rated: TS Eliot, Virgina Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Phil Larkin, E.A. Poe, A. Ginsburg, Longfellow, Gerald Manley Hopkins (actually I LOATHE Hopkins more than damson-dappled words can say).

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Edna Sweetlove

Edna Sweetlove

5 years 11 months ago

the wallet

It was badly stained but the pound notes were still valid.