“Ooh, have you seen what Gail’s put on Facebook?” 
“About Jade’s Spanish lodger? Right made me giggle.” 
“Bet you can guess what’s underlined in her phrase book!” 
“When I told our Kylie she fainted in Lidl.”
“She said, ‘well that explains the bar through her nipple!”
“She definitely has. I’ve seen it full frontal.” 
“So I guess the kids have another new uncle?”
“What has she been like since the end of her marriage!”

I try to ignore it and don’t like to grumble 
But must you share it with the whole quiet carriage? 


This is a Dizain, a French form with dix lines and an ABABBCCDCD rhyme scheme. It was inspired by a conversation on the train from St Pancras to Sheffield which was shared with the whole carriage, and is supposed to be one-sided fragments of a conversation that you’ll never hear as a whole.

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