{"id":8772,"date":"2021-09-30T10:15:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T09:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=8772"},"modified":"2021-09-30T10:31:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T09:31:54","slug":"a-controller-of-buses-and-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/30\/a-controller-of-buses-and-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"A Controller of Buses and Trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last twenty-eight years I have been the senior controller of the buses and trains at Martin Station<\/p>\n<p>I was sent there as a punishment after I caused the Martin Martin train crash in which 127 asylum seekers died<\/p>\n<p>But although I served a token prison sentence of a day my actions (or lack of) meant that I was relegated to this little junction station<\/p>\n<p>Although quiet it is quite an complex station to manage as I need to ensure that all trains and buses are precisely run in sequence<\/p>\n<p>Quite frequently I have a train without a bus and a bus without a train or nothing at all<\/p>\n<p>Prior to my demotion and appointment the six previous controllers had committed suicide by throwing themselves under trains<\/p>\n<p>A seventh was due to throw himself under a train at Martin Martin Martin railway station on the day that I fucked up killing 127 asylum seekers two dogs and four cats<\/p>\n<p>Up to 1909 Martin was a leper colony and this shows as I occasionally find limbs on the platform and in the ladies powder room<\/p>\n<p>Only yesterday I found a finger in the chocolate machine next to the buffet<\/p>\n<p>I actually treat my passengers with contempt as like older people they moan moan moan and moan<\/p>\n<p>It drags you down and you feel nothing but violence towards them and I occasionally order hits carried out by the families of the asylum seekers who died<\/p>\n<p>I have yet to retrieve a head from the Martin Tunnel which fell off last Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>I will collect the head but first I want to finish my painting of Martin Bus Station which is due to be exhibited at the RA Summer Exhibition as were my previous works<\/p>\n<p><em>The First to Die<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Squashed Beyond Recognition<\/em> and <em>Martin Railway Station on a Spring Evening<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These have made me a rich man and I have six lovely wives who wait on me hand and foot<\/p>\n<p>They are all called Hazel Bee except Hazel Bee Bee who is called Hazel Bee Bee<\/p>\n<p>In all I am a happy man who is more than content with his lot<\/p>\n<p>I was due to retire last year but asked to stay on and now I pay the Martin Railway Company a salary each month<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Martin Martin-Martin (2022)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last twenty-eight years I have been the senior controller of the buses and trains at Martin Station I was sent there as a punishment after I caused the Martin Martin train crash in which 127 asylum seekers died But although I served a token prison sentence of a day my actions (or lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}