Travel

Tom had been reluctant to tell Joe
Of Desiree’s whereabouts
Instinctively Tom felt some distrust of Joe
He had some fear, but
And he knew it was to become a bigger but
He also knew that Joe

Had got the confidence of the Dean
Tom had no doubt
That if Joe felt that Tom was being obstructive
Then he would manipulate the situation
Tom dare not put his daughter Desiree
At such a risk.

The train pulled slowly out of the station
It was travelling north to south
Over the full length of the country
The travellers on the train...

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Learning

Well Tom, I want you to do a crash course
In sociology with psychology
I want you to get into the minds of the youth
I want you to build something new
Then the Dean paused:

It is no good letting our chaps do it
We will just come up with more of the same
It needs a new perspective
Untainted thoughts
Again the dean took a breath

But I’m sorry, I need to know
That you have the establishments words
That you have their theories in your tool bag
We must not let academia beat us
We must play them at their own game

But we must play to win
Wow, that’s the best yet said Tom...

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Humanities

That Joe is quite interesting
The Dean said to Tom
He is so right about the mess we’ve made
The vision that we’ve lost
Now we just look down the straight lines
The soiled, sordid monetary lines

Tom did not answer; he had been touched
By Joe's effect on the Dean; Tom was a man
Who actually did understand how to look
Down the straight lines, down the monetary lines
Give Tom a clear, well defined objective and he
Would produce results; but sociology, for that

Was where he thought the Dean was going
Social science was far too vague
The humanities far too rich in theory
Far too short on indisputable rights or wrongs
Look Dean, Tom spoke sincerely...

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Wood Work

On his settee Joe was transfixed
He stared into an entire empty space
He had no framework in his mind
About where he was to go next

He was, as his mother’s voice reminded him
He was in uncharted waters
He was in way too deep

Eventually he picked up the empty fruit bowl
Which his friend Stephen had made at school
Stephen had no family
So had given the dish to Joe’s mother

Who had often looked out for him
Here it was now...

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Relations

Tom Smithson had never really got on
With his older sister
It had all seemed so easy for her
Whereas he had to work hard

He had to take risks, his technique
His only known way was to give up all
To concentrate
On winning the one thing

He hated her easy roundness
Her apparent completeness
Tom thought that Vanessa
Had never given him any help

Any real thought even...

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