Don’t be cooped up in a car
Concentrating on every mile
Sit yourself back in a train
Look out the window
Smile at the rain
Don’t be cooped up in a car
Juggernauts juddering by
Sit at ease with a book
Browse a paper or look
Out of the window again
At moorland mountain and fen
Don’t be cooped up in a car
Idiots penning you in
Walk down the carriage a while
Travel and going in style
Get yourself coffee or tea
And bring something back just for me
Brian Fahy
23 November 2021
+ My brother, Michael, comes to visit me today, travelling from Bolton to Stirling…by train.
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