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People never push me into doing things
I don't want to do. So I go like a railway guard:
snug in the last of a line of carriages,
left to myself and my own devices.
Sometimes, something might draw my attention:
a goods train bound in the other direction,
the unreadable name of an unmanned station, and sometimes,
if forced, I'll be pressed into action;
to sign for a parcel or take on diesel.
I shall never be one for the clipping of tickets,
or the chеcking of toilets, or the passing of comments.
I shall sit, to see from hеre the signals
changing, to say nothing
of the parallel lines converging, and fading.
‘People never push me into doing things’ was written by Simon Armitage.
Simon Armitage released ‘People never push me into doing things’ on Fri Jan 01 1993.