4.43 m.n.

155.2014

four forty eight,

pat the cat

Console the disconsolate

at five-alarm off. Light on.

Shave and dress

Smell of chlorine in the bathroom.

Dead bacteria everywhere.

leave the coat, day is to be warm

small bird sings loudly at the bus.:

Wait, the good morning lady, as always.

Only two people here today.

Overcast but dry, this day.

The station, a regular place with all its regular people, going to work, buying tickets, drinking beverages, many not really awake and some sleeping as they stand. Aggressive people push to board the train, better seats. wider drivel, what have you, just be the first for the

rate of being the first. Grins mutated to a baring of teeth, eyes narrowly focused in a predatory glare. An effusively friendly Train attendant checks the tickets, wishing everybody such a friendly and good' day. "Most just stare. and groan, in a monotone. Marburg, the carriage  is invaded a crowd of laughing chatterboxes, topped of by what must be a  woman's heels beating off the plastic coating of the hollow flooring in the carriage. Load heels on an otherwise shy women.. How much time does the morning cultivation of appearance take? an hour. Twenty minutes? Out at five means up at four, to try to look good at six

        The eternal cocoon that is the train, polly put the kittle on. An old nursery rhyme,repeated the sound of the starting train. It has lost the staccato "To tuck the mat, to touch the wet" of the trains resting in childhood memories.

        The always cheerful mosaic maker was not at the station today, She is called Ina, an unusual name in Gemany.

Arrival in Freising, the days routine draining the time away, an 'imposition an personal freedom, a requirement for survival. The Es-bhan waiting, bankers clothes hustling with workers overalls,.

The joining of the Freising train with the Neufahm Airport train in Neufahm always takes time, excites comment. The slow approach of the coupling train to the passively waiting train. The jerks , movements small, almost furtive, the pauses, and then the steady slow, relentless-in-character, push, to final contact and joining. The tension is relieved, the doors open, and the fervently waiting passengers may proceed, impatient and  happy to enter the broken day...