{"id":3153,"date":"2016-09-06T23:19:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T22:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2016-09-06T23:19:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T22:19:36","slug":"at-st-james-tramstop-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/at-st-james-tramstop-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"At St. James Tramstop, Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"At<\/a>
At St James Tramstop Dublin – Image from the Google StreetView, the tramstop is on the right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They sit there drinking across the track
\nTalking loudly, drunkenly swaying
\nThe man looks like on on smack
\nAnd I hear snatches of what they are saying.
\nAnd they don’t get on the tram
\nThat heads for Tallaght, that has pulled up
\nAnd wary of them I am
\nAs from a naggin a woman has a sup.<\/p>\n

Then to our side some youths from
\nThe flats there across the way
\nId suppose the older ones also come
\nFrom them flats, where the children play
\nThe barechested boys
\nProud without their shirts to be seen
\nTheir bravado they employ
\nAs in front of the girls they pose and preen
\nActing the hard men strong
\nEach trying to look more big
\nAnd the girls look not to care
\nAs from a shared flagon of cider they swig.<\/p>\n

And those who often the tram use
\nPass no remarks on their standing there
\nBut I from the country refuse
\nTo be near them, as under my breath I swear
\nAt the tram that has not arrived yet
\nAnd I walk away a few paces
\nAnd I my jaw to the world has set
\nYet think, if fate has with us swapped places
\nAnd I from those flats was one
\nOf the residents, and from there had came
\nAnd my life in their world begun
\nWould I like them have turned out the same?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They sit there drinking across the track Talking loudly, drunkenly swaying The man looks like on on smack And I hear snatches of what they are saying. And they don’t get on the tram That heads for Tallaght, that has pulled up And wary of them I am As from …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[475],"tags":[1028,3221,3220,3217,3219,3218,3216,3222],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dander-in-dublin","tag-dublin","tag-dublin-city","tag-dublin-tram","tag-luas","tag-poem-about-the-luas","tag-poems-about-dublin","tag-st-james","tag-st-james-hospital","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-OR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2046,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/written-beside-a-stone-to-paul-smith\/","url_meta":{"origin":3153,"position":0},"title":"Written Beside a Stone to Paul Smith","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"10th July 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest of the poems restored to the website, its from the \"Dander in Dublin\" series, from way back in 2010... 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