Saturday 21 July 2012

Bus notes 11

Around the gaudy roundabout we go.
Dudley Castle does its old joke again
        and above the town
        the brown horse tumbles up,
        so gauche, with a belly full
        of helium
toward the clouded over Sun.

3 comments:

  1. For a great image of Dudley Castle from the Bus Station, go to this link:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/walsall1955/5043759575/

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  2. WB,

    That horses-arse-ish helium balloon seeming so corroded and indeed almost leaden (however allegedly Edenic) it made the prospect of a Sunday Black Country outing seem a flight into an earlier industrial, yet somehow oddly better, more roundabout, limestone-remembering pre-Olympian sort of bus-riding time. But in a good way.

    Up, Up and Away, then!

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  3. It was a poor scrap of a thing, but lovely to see, nonetheless.

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