First Great Western picks platform poet
The recent announcement that First Great Western have appointed a poet to perform at certain stations (including Reading) made me squirm. Sally Crabtree is known by other artists as “the pink-wigged pocket Venus from Cornwall”. I expect that commuters would rather have improvements made to the operator’s Reading-Paddington services. A company spokesman said
It’s part of our annual engagement with our public, and it’s meant to be fun
I could quite happily rant about this, but I won’t. Instead, I will delight you with my own train-related poem, penned about 5 minutes ago:
Why take the train?
You can take the road instead
or better still
stay at home, in bed
drink a coffee
(or a cup of tea),
think about shopping
- or Sonko’s knee.
Why take the train?
You can cycle or fly
or better still
watch the world go by
from Costa
or the pub…
Sorry. I’m not very good at this sort of thing.
Matt Brady on August 16th 2007 in Culture
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