On the platform at Island Gardens

Sandrena-Sandrena was writing a poem

It was called

First Class Hieronymus

Suddenly a man kissed her on the cheek as he boarded a train

His name was Mitchell and he was visiting the Cutty Sark

Sandrena-Sandrena ran after the train through the platform puddles

But the shoal fish

Pencil thin

Nibbled ferociously

At her bare feet

And stopped her

Nearby a small boy in a wretched pullover sang

Climb, climb the clippers mast
The day is long
And the sea is vast

His sister who was wearing a floral dress also sang

Tea, tea, chests of tea
Tea for you
But not for me  

As there were no further trains that day Sandrena-Sandrena found a vacant seat and completed the poem she was writing