{"id":4393,"date":"2018-08-14T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4393"},"modified":"2018-08-14T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T20:52:00","slug":"passing-passengers-on-the-409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/passing-passengers-on-the-409\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing Passengers on the 409"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I await my bus, I and the others, next to us
\nThe bus pulls in from whose windows faces
\nBlank at us stare as if we was not there
\nHeading to their places
\nThe bus pulls away, I on my own way
\nOn my own now as those who with me had stood
\nStood on the step on the bus that pulled in beside us
\nAs in time, a short time, my bus would
\nPicking me up to bring me there, until where
\nI will sit staring out windows at those
\nAt others stops we drive by and stop
\nRushing to their own busy lives I suppose:<\/p>\n

Buses are but numbers, go where their drivers say…
\nOur bosses are our drivers: we are buses in our own way…<\/p>\n

\"Sunset<\/a>
Sunset at GMIT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I await my bus, I and the others, next to us The bus pulls in from whose windows faces Blank at us stare as if we was not there Heading to their places The bus pulls away, I on my own way On my own now as those who …<\/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":[7],"tags":[4152,391,65,13],"class_list":["post-4393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-bus","tag-galway","tag-life-2","tag-travel-2","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-18R","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1586,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/two-magpies-at-kilcormac\/","url_meta":{"origin":4393,"position":0},"title":"Two Magpies at Kilcormac","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"7th April 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Two magpies to the sky took flight I passed by to Birr on the bus Joy up ahead but not here yet Natures oracles speak to us. 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