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Thursday, 3 March 2022

Loud French Girl on the Train to Bath (un poème)

 

Loud French Girl on the Train to Bath

(un poème)

 


You got on at Bristol Temple Meads.

You and your beau.

It was quite obvious that you wore the pantalon,

even though he was dying to pull them off you.

You proceeded to ask out loud to everyone sat on the carriage

“Is this the train to Southampton, the train to Portsmouth?”

Why ask, if you were getting off at Bath?

British reserve had disappeared out of the window

when you plonked your derrière on the seat.

Your lover, like Gomez to Morticia was all over you like a rash.

You both gave me a disgusted look as I dared to peep over

hoping for a bit of voyeuristic action.

Get a room then or a Pullman Sleeper

Like a WelshNationalist to a tourist I felt like standing up and shouting

“I was here first”

He was getting all Charles Asnavour and Gilbert Becaud as you were giggling

I was getting more and more pissed off.

You both looked up when I shouted

 “NON!” 

after receiving a request

from a friend as to whether he could stay over!

Extrovert behaviour gets no brownie points from me mes amies!

Loud Alouette ‘descendue’ at Bain which is Bath in French.  

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