Extraction

Black is blacker
Wheels turn
Lift drops
Water follows

Spinning tungsten
Teeth cut out
The black gold.



Some of the words written on benches in Chester-le-Street marketplace, spotted from a bus which drove on before they could all be copied down. Submitted by Marika Rose.

The back of a bus

He likes you,
He's got money,
and a car.
What. Is. Your. Problem.





By Mark, overheard in the back of the number 18 bus in Cambridge UK, 16 April 2010.