Back to my free form pseudo poetry for now. This describes an event that happened a few days ago, when I was on the train to London from Edinburgh.<\/p>\n
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I am usually not a fan of children while travelling<\/p>\n
They are perfectly cute when at home<\/p>\n
But while on the road<\/p>\n
They scream and shout and whine and cry<\/p>\n
Worst of all though<\/p>\n
Are the cellphones and the Ipads and the computer games<\/p>\n
Beeping with Candy Crush and Temple Run and god knows what the next fad is<\/p>\n
To be honest, it is not just the kids<\/p>\n
But it is the kids I pity<\/p>\n
The kids who miss out on so much<\/p>\n
The joy of the outdoors, of board games and books<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
With a mix of pity and irritation<\/p>\n
I sat across a family of four<\/p>\n
A four hour journey from Edinburgh to London<\/p>\n
Armed with Advil and a lot of grit<\/p>\n
Waiting for those contraptions to come out<\/p>\n
And the beeping and bickering to start<\/p>\n
Yet, to my surprise,<\/p>\n
The only clinks I heard were those of Connect 4 tokens<\/p>\n
And the pop up wooden chessboard<\/p>\n
Was the closest thing to a contraption<\/p>\n
And instead of burying his head in phone texts<\/p>\n
The boy wrote his sister a letter<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I won’t lie<\/p>\n
They screamed and fought all the same<\/p>\n
But these children gave me something more<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
For in them, I saw my own childhood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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