From Pickering to Grosmont
you can go by steam
and that's what me and Nigel did
and it was extremely eye-opening.
Putting my head from a window
gave me a surprise
even with your glasses on
the soot gets in your eyes.
Further up another bloke
was leaning through a door
looking at the moor,
he wasn't bothered by the smoke
because of what he wore,
he wore underwater glasses
he'd done this before
and I said can I have a go
and he said are you poor?
I said not particularly
and he explained that he wasn't a charity
organisation either.
John Hegley
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pickering-to-grosmont/
