Eurogloom

Pondy...
the French enclave until 1954

at first it was unfamiliar

because unexpected

kinda hmm
what is this?
unsettling
known and not known

but now i feel at home

because eventually i saw it for what it is

European gloom

something i know very well

ice-cream stalls in the heavy downpour

grey seas

unsold candyfloss

........its european gloom

for priscilla, of course, it was an unfamiliar

an unusual

an alien

but for me

familiar
homey
comforting, even.............. good old style euro-mizz
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and its a specific kind of european gloom

the out-of-season seaside town kind of European gloom

which is a species almost to itself

a perfected kind of gloom

i once went to a rain-swept scarborough in february

and this is more than reminiscent...

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which, we are wondering is the most stupid

a goat a cow or a dog?

a goat we reckon

... especially after chindabaram bus station where the goats take shelter from the rain under the bus and sit there, even when the engines running and only reluctantly head off when the wheels start turning

and run straight under another bus, even though its actually moving
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off tomorrow