the convenient mode of travel is being jammed
into a metal tube and hurled at speed
from city to city spending hours in seats
set far too close together for my legs
but when there is a common goal you meet
those that share that goal the ones who go
for the same reason as you to attend
the same meetings talk about the same
subjects and concerns and in the same
language of knowledge at a large remove
from the speech of the streets and the voices
coming over the radio excited by bat and ball
or the desire to sell furniture or cars
to those who listen only for the game
glued to the wireless annoyed
by the announcers' charmless words
more important however are the meetings
old friends and colleagues those who share the love
of the lands that ring and sit in that green sea
and all the peoples who inhabit them
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