<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399994" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Train ride</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the rail tracts<br>trains past one after the other <br>at speed<br>and there are crowds <br>standing on the platform<br>and people pressing past each other<br>to get aboard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watch the confusion<br>and on the train<br>people loose their senses<br>and they press to seats<br>right through each other.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A man dressed in a black suit<br>tries to convert everybody around him<br>and stand and preach in the aisle, <br>with the holy book<br>that he opens at places.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What he is saying<br>passes me faster<br>than the scenery at the windows<br>and I see people unable to forget, <br>how the city devour their souls<br>and the man evidently preaches regularly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Opposite me a man reads the Pretoria News<br>and a young woman<br>wants to know the time<br>while she bends forward<br>and I am able to see the crevice <br>between her breasts<br>and she winks <br>while the train picks up speed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Boy let they just invade my house<br>and then some shots will ring, ”<br>an obese man says<br>who wipes sweat<br>with a handkerchief from his shining face<br>and gives biltong<br>to the people around him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To the front there’s someone screaming<br>in a foreign language<br>and I wonder if someone <br>is falling from the train<br>or rather being thrown off, <br>while the unconcerned conductor<br>takes the ticket puncher from his pocket.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399994" data-title="Train ride de Gert Strydom" data-description="On the rail tracts trains past one after the other at speed and there are crowds standing on the platform and people pressing past each other to get aboard. I watch the confusion and on the train people loose their senses and they press to seat..."></div> </div> </div>

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