Tuesday, July 8, 2008

a railway overtone (truly random)

1/4 of an abandoned sausage roll sitting silent teenager snoozing on her mother's lap 2 girls in front same age excitedly spotting sheep playing cards sitting crosslegged cogh cough grandma on left sun disappears makes already chilly carriage seem colder still clouds seem to take on an ever more fluffy snow-like look cough cough as we head south 2 chimneys water tank HAHA cough cough toilet engaged 3 people with snacks a line of pines about 4 or 5 deep now ends at the drop of a hill banks of orangey dirt wobbling with the speed curve speed white ute travelling opposite brake slightly another station tarago followed by bungendore mother spreads shawl over teenage child girls in front see another sheep tractor green roof that's good isn't it men on laddres fixing the roof orage vested warm hooded red sticker scaffold step step step step cap and sunnies look around thunk thunk thunk hammer on tin roof kchhhhh-click soft drink can being opened games book games book rattle of tools being carelessly dropped cough cough toilet engaged stationary train hum air con hush oh thanks now it's gonna be awkward crunch the sound of chip eating snack people a few rows back HA HA HA HA HA indian lady with baby looks stressed power drills cherry picker chugging away slowly annoying singing boy sleeps pink bucket 3 bedrooms cough cough power lines drop below the windows white dot cockatoos black block cows 8154 diesel engine shipping containers cough cough cough cough cough barbed wire sprawling eucalypts rock spindly rocky smooth curved hills triangle train sign moving slowly not far cough cough to next station on the right smooth hills dip into shadowy sunlight left yellow tufty grass see the line of the hill under the tree canopy woody broken branches crunch crunch crunch cough cough rusty barbed wire hehehehehehe

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