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I'm on the train coming back from Birmingham

Surrounded by the clack of laptops

In the quiet coach

Indifferent hedgerows scutter past the window

Beneath a lifeless January sky

The coffee fails to come

I've read the Metro

Checked the verse I am to read

As entertainment for the Christmas  lunch

And can't be bothered with my current book.

Boredom, ennui or simply laziness?

I'm on the train.

Brian Hick January 2012

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