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All Day Long<\/strong><\/p>\n The wheels on the bus achieve their forward motion The precise noise made by the wipers The conductor on the bus is hardly likely The baby on the bus doubtless screams its head off But don\u2019t cry. Uncle Neil has a car <\/p>\n Neil Fulwood<\/strong> is the author of media studies book The Films of Sam Peckinpah and co-editor, with David Sillitoe, of the anthology More Raw Material: work inspired by Alan Sillitoe<\/em> (Lucifer Press, 2015). His debut poetry collection, No Avoiding It<\/em>, is published by Shoestring Press this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All Day Long The wheels on the bus achieve their forward motion via the interplay of axles, driveshaft and internal combustion engine. Gear ratios and synchromesh are a bit more complicated so we’ll leave them for now. But yes, as a piece of catchy oversimplification, the wheels on the bus quite definitely go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14769,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions\/14769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nvia the interplay of axles, driveshaft
\nand internal combustion engine. Gear ratios
\nand synchromesh are a bit more complicated
\nso we’ll leave them for now. But yes,
\nas a piece of catchy oversimplification, the wheels
\non the bus quite definitely go round and round.<\/p>\n
\ndepends on the inclemency of the weather,
\nthe efficacy or otherwise of the wiper motor
\nand whether the rubber on the blades is new
\nor a bit buggered. In other words, the wipers on the bus
\nmight go swish swish swish, but be prepared
\nfor scrawk scrawk scrape. All journey long.<\/p>\n
\nto say anything. They don’t have \u2019em anymore.
\nThe driver on the bus isn’t much of a conversationalist.<\/p>\n
\nbut it’s nowhere near as annoying as the student
\non the bus who wants his rucksack rammed
\nup his arse, rammed up his arse; or the thick muppet
\nwho stands right by the driver\u2019s cab, slap bang
\nin everyone\u2019s way when there are half a dozen
\navailable seats; or the tosser with the iPod
\nthat sounds like a Hadron collider going at it full tilt.<\/p>\n
\nand we can ride in that instead of the bus.
\nThe wheels on Uncle Neil\u2019s car go round and round,
\nround and round; and, with a certain degree
\nof frequency, the horn goes toot.
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