Poem
Richard Price
Last Train, Full of Couples
Last Train, Full of Couples
Last Train, Full of Couples
Last train, full of couples.I shouldn’t have shouted.
Last train, full of couples.
You took drugs in the Listening Olympics.
Last train, full of couples.
There are worse things than an honest debate.
No goodbye this time?
Last train, full of couples.
All stations
to the end of the line.
Last train, full of couples.
You’ll be home I guess.
Last train, full of couples.
These two aren’t speaking but she’s staying close.
Last train, full of couples.
Alright we disagree - on faith and the shimmering law.
Is that a High Court crime?
Last train, full of couples.
All stations
to the end of the line.
Last train full of couples.
You’ll still be awake.
Last train, full of couples.
Red bra straps and a silver stud.
Last train, full of couples.
Roman earrings, stolen within a week.
Minerva, in her prime.
Last train, full of couples.
All stations
to the end of the line.
Last train, first train - midnight’s delivered
its prizewinning song.
The passengers are passionate,
they’re clutching and clinging.
The ticket collector’s singing
“Let’s Get It On.”
Last train, full of couples.
Your eyes – surely closed by now.
Last train, full of couples.
You always sleep with conviction.
Last train, full of couples.
Tattoos on my shoulder, a birthmark on your thigh –
everything’s flames to me.
Last train, full of couples.
Kids and pensioners travel free.
© 2007, Richard Price
From: PN Review
Publisher: Carcanet Press, Manchester
From: PN Review
Publisher: Carcanet Press, Manchester
Richard Price
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1966)
Richard Price was born in Reading in 1966 and grew up in Renfrewshire, south-west of Glasgow. He trained as a journalist at Napier College, Edinburgh before studying English and Librarianship at Strathclyde University, Glasgow.
Price is associated with the 1990s group of poets, the Informationists, which includes W.N. Herbert, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey and Alan Riach. He writes: “One of the i...
Price is associated with the 1990s group of poets, the Informationists, which includes W.N. Herbert, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey and Alan Riach. He writes: “One of the i...
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Last Train, Full of Couples
Last train, full of couples.I shouldn’t have shouted.
Last train, full of couples.
You took drugs in the Listening Olympics.
Last train, full of couples.
There are worse things than an honest debate.
No goodbye this time?
Last train, full of couples.
All stations
to the end of the line.
Last train, full of couples.
You’ll be home I guess.
Last train, full of couples.
These two aren’t speaking but she’s staying close.
Last train, full of couples.
Alright we disagree - on faith and the shimmering law.
Is that a High Court crime?
Last train, full of couples.
All stations
to the end of the line.
Last train full of couples.
You’ll still be awake.
Last train, full of couples.
Red bra straps and a silver stud.
Last train, full of couples.
Roman earrings, stolen within a week.
Minerva, in her prime.
Last train, full of couples.
All stations
to the end of the line.
Last train, first train - midnight’s delivered
its prizewinning song.
The passengers are passionate,
they’re clutching and clinging.
The ticket collector’s singing
“Let’s Get It On.”
Last train, full of couples.
Your eyes – surely closed by now.
Last train, full of couples.
You always sleep with conviction.
Last train, full of couples.
Tattoos on my shoulder, a birthmark on your thigh –
everything’s flames to me.
Last train, full of couples.
Kids and pensioners travel free.
From: PN Review
Last Train, Full of Couples
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