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Dylan Thomas Remembered....

Enviro 200 MX63 WZW has now had its' special livery to mark the 100th anniversary of the great Poet's birth.Here it is on the 141 at Gorseinon about an hour ago .So what difference will having Dylan Thomas all over it make to this ordinary bus?

 

Dylan Thomas On My Side

 

I was just a little white bus

To get you there without a fuss

Til today that is

As since they dressed me up like this

I still go about keeping time

Though now I'm compelled to think in rhyme

 

This morning a jockey got on at Morriston Cross

The library housed his grazing horse

My driver asked him where too

He said," my friend,I've broke my knee"

We'd better stop at A&E

A single please incase I stay

I'll have a wait anyway

 

After hospital it's the crem

Where friends depart and others remember them

Then I pass the Plough and Harrow

Turn right for that dead end that's long and narrow

I pick a few up there and turned back too

One was an old guy with manure in a barrow

What else could I do

 

I pass the café and the big office in the woods

Annoying when I wait for trucks delivering goods

A girl got on got me thinking

As she swore she saw Dylan winking

 

Pontlliw next and there was Huw

A big fat chap who likes Irish stew.

My driver was yawning

Huw wished him top of the morning

Tidy but few passengers come from Pontlliw

 

I can blink and miss Tircoed

Another nice place,nice people

A radio station under the cabin with a steeple

Don't see many though when I stop

I guess that all they want is in the village shop

 

Next we're in Penllergaer

Quite a few regulars come from there

They've three reasons to reach Gorseinon

Shopping,Doctors or to sign on

 

Then we hit town, stop by the station loo

Call of nature,the drivers do

Then it's round the houses,Loughor and Penyrheol

Remembering the order takes the wisdom of an owl

 

So I'm a little white bus with a hero on my side

Don't hesitate and come for a ride

Though spare a thought for a genius of yore

Read his work if you haven't before

And follow next year if you want to know more....

 

Paul "Woolfie" Hills 17.41 23 November,2013.

 

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