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In reply to the discussion: "Brown Bagging" is now on Seattle's shitlist... [View all]Journeyman
(15,023 posts)57. I'd had in mind the connotation of a traveller trudging through life when I picked it. . .
Journeyman
Spine-tingling railway sleepers ---
Sleepy houses lying four-square and firm
Orange beams divide the darkness
Rumbling fit to turn the waking worm.
Sliding through Victorian tunnels
where green moss oozes from the pores.
Dull echoes from the wet embankments
Battlefield allotments. Fresh open sores.
In late night commuter madness
Double-locked black briefcase on the floor
like a faithful dog with master
sleeping in the draught beside the carriage door.
To each Journeyman his own home-coming
Cold supper nearing with each station stop
Frosty flakes on empty platforms
Fireside slippers waiting. Flip. Flop.
Journeyman night-tripping on the late fantasic
Too late to stop for tea at Gerard's Cross
and hear the soft shoes on the footbridge shuffle
as the wheels turn biting on the midnight frost.
On the late commuter special
Carriage lights that flicker, fade and die
Howling into hollow blackness
Dusky diesel shudders in full cry.
Down redundant morning papers
Abandon crosswords with a cough
Stationmaster in his wisdom
told the guard to turn the heating off.
~ Jethro Tull, Heavy Horses
Spine-tingling railway sleepers ---
Sleepy houses lying four-square and firm
Orange beams divide the darkness
Rumbling fit to turn the waking worm.
Sliding through Victorian tunnels
where green moss oozes from the pores.
Dull echoes from the wet embankments
Battlefield allotments. Fresh open sores.
In late night commuter madness
Double-locked black briefcase on the floor
like a faithful dog with master
sleeping in the draught beside the carriage door.
To each Journeyman his own home-coming
Cold supper nearing with each station stop
Frosty flakes on empty platforms
Fireside slippers waiting. Flip. Flop.
Journeyman night-tripping on the late fantasic
Too late to stop for tea at Gerard's Cross
and hear the soft shoes on the footbridge shuffle
as the wheels turn biting on the midnight frost.
On the late commuter special
Carriage lights that flicker, fade and die
Howling into hollow blackness
Dusky diesel shudders in full cry.
Down redundant morning papers
Abandon crosswords with a cough
Stationmaster in his wisdom
told the guard to turn the heating off.
~ Jethro Tull, Heavy Horses
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Apparently the word has a racist history, which is news to most White People, me included
maxsolomon
Aug 2013
#43
It was once used by African-American fraternities and sororities, to keep out
Common Sense Party
Aug 2013
#53
I think people will eventually catch on to the misogyny in the term "sack lunch"? n/t
hughee99
Aug 2013
#67
I'd had in mind the connotation of a traveller trudging through life when I picked it. . .
Journeyman
Aug 2013
#57
True. Keep in mind though i do NOT want to see DU fall into the right wing PC trap.
alp227
Aug 2013
#52
Political correctness is a RW invention to redirect debate from valid points. nt
valerief
Aug 2013
#83
I recently found out that Oriental, the adjective, applied to a person is offensive.
TransitJohn
Aug 2013
#23
Some years ago on the old White House parody site (whitehouse.org?) they used that reference.
Gidney N Cloyd
Aug 2013
#88
A shipmate from New Oreleans called herself a Creole debutante who didn't "take"-
haele
Aug 2013
#93
But it may be a question of accuracy, and nothing to do with changing laws
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2013
#20
Not all of us are in favor of this kind of ridiculous, time wasting, censorship.
liberal_at_heart
Aug 2013
#60
ALERTING FOR USING THE WORD "FUCK"! Fuckers using the word fuck is fucking fucked. FFS.
L0oniX
Aug 2013
#56
This kind of silliness is red meat for those who like to piss and moan about political correctness.
nomorenomore08
Aug 2013
#58
Not to mention it gives average dipshits - usually white and heterosexual - license to feel
nomorenomore08
Aug 2013
#74