Wooden Boy: Bus notes 5

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St Pauls Street, Walsall, on a rainy night, early 1970s (I): photo by Walsall1955, 3 May 2011

........There’d been too many coffees

........and the blood went at a rate.

Talking with Dad before: 
it was words heard wrong, 
the working hurts, a smashed up house.

........Some bloke by the doors

........was kicking out a foot

........with paper stuck to it.
The dirty water slid across the floor.

........We passed the Oratory

........and the lights were out

........and no one crossed themselves

........and everything was still

........in the light and the waiting.

I said in a too loud voice,

We’re all going the same way.

........The whole of the lower deck
........shut up quick and turned

........to look at the thin rain

........start to repeat itself.

Bloxwich Bus Station in the rain, 1978: photo by Walsall1955, 17 June 2010

   

Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d'un curé de campagne), directed by Robert Bresson, 1950: screenshot from DVD

 

Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d'un curé de campagne), directed by Robert Bresson, 1950: screenshot from DVD

St Pauls Street, Walsall, on a rainy night, early 1970s (2): photo by Walsall1955, 3 May 2011

Wooden Boy: Bus notes 5, from The Little Wooden Boy, 11 June 2012