On the Underground, Set No. 2 - The Strange and the Exotic Thea
Musgrave
There is one unexpected
pleasure in taking the London
underground: one's eye may alight on a poem, and the imagination takes wing. The second poem so alarmed the Transport
Executive that it was never used.
Dreams by Robert Herrick
Here we are all, by day; by night;
By night we are hurled by dreams
Each one into a several world.
The Subway Piranhas by Edwin Morgan
Did anyone tell you that in each
subway train there is one special seat with a small hole in it and underneath
the seat is a tank of piranha fish which have not been fed for quite some time.
The fish become agitated by the
shoogling of the train and jump up through the seat. The resulting skeletons of
unlucky passengers turn an honest penny for the transport executive hanging far
and wide in medical schools.
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Thea Musgrave
On the Underground, Set No. 2 – The Strange and the Exotic Play
Recorded on 08/17/2004, uploaded on 01/11/2009
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On the Underground, Set No. 2 - The Strange and the Exotic Thea Musgrave
There is one unexpected pleasure in taking the London underground: one's eye may alight on a poem, and the imagination takes wing. The second poem so alarmed the Transport Executive that it was never used.
Dreams by Robert Herrick
Here we are all, by day; by night;
By night we are hurled by dreams
Each one into a several world.
The Subway Piranhas by Edwin Morgan
Did anyone tell you that in each subway train there is one special seat with a small hole in it and underneath the seat is a tank of piranha fish which have not been fed for quite some time.
The fish become agitated by the shoogling of the train and jump up through the seat. The resulting skeletons of unlucky passengers turn an honest penny for the transport executive hanging far and wide in medical schools.
Christopher Bell
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