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Lament for London's Bus No. 30.(Poem)
Quadrant
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April 01, 2006 |
Edgar, Suzanne |
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Lament for London's Bus No. 30.
Turning a page of the local Times
I see a picture of the dead bus
under a blue tarpaulin shroud
and borne along on a semi for a bier.
The broken outline of its bulk
is bleak against the sky,
the people who were passengers
have vanished.
Alone, without its rostered driver,
the blameless double-decker bus
is making its last, post-mortem, trip.
Forensic teams will ...
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