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If I had brought an I-pad for the trip,

Instead of looking calmly at the view,

I'd be finding lots of things to do

Like reading emails, surfing, letting rip

While scanning page by page things I don't need,

Celebrities of whom I've never heard,

Scandals from every corner of the world,

None of it worth the time it takes to read.

So here I am, the only one in sight,

Looking, listening to what is here

Rather than entranced, from ear to ear,

By thumping bass-lines, or the warlords' fight.

How odd to find myself alone, again;

The only one who knows he's on a train.

Brian Hick January 2013

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