You know I find these vending machines so tiresome

They are meant to be tiresome

What time is the next train?

In about ten minutes

It is the last Dover train of the day

I am going home at last

Are you excited?

Very I am going to meet my distant descendants

I think I have been in Gravesend for too long

How long have you lived here

Four hundred years

I have had this conversation on many occasions

It is never different

She never catches the train

She just stands next to the tiresome vending machine

Awaiting the next train

With a slight smile pursing her lips

 

Pocahontas

You died in this estuary town

On your return voyage

Miles from your original home

The location of your grave is unknown

As your father’s church was consumed by flames

Only your statue remains

Everybody visits you

But few remember you

 

There is a life size statue of Pocahontas at Saint George’s Church in Gravesend Kent

Pocahontas was buried here after her death in 1617

The exact location of her grave is unknown as the original church was destroyed by fire in 1627

She is thought to have been buried underneath the chancel of the church

 

Pocahontas

Indian Bride

No good will come of your voyage

You will die in an estuary town

In England’s first county

 

 

Pocahontas and her husband John Rolfe were returning to Virginia in March 1617 but only got as far as Gravesend as Pocahontas had become seriously ill

After being taken ashore she died soon after and was buried in the Kent town

Her grave is now lost

 

Trail Monkey

The Trail Monkey always rides

In the final wagon

Of the train

He is tasked

To look out for

 

Red Indians

But they are far away