First

First-class service on LNER

Isn’t always exactly five-star:

Railway snacks may include

Sausage-roll finger food

Taken back from the trash by the bar!

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His poems have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, the Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, WestWard Quarterly and other journals. The poem was prompted by the LBC story, “‘I tried my best’: Train worker sacked after serving passengers sausage rolls from bin.”