Ah, Carl. To sleep, perhaps to travel by train through a vast triangular Indian plateau south of the Gangetic plains.
You have the railway rhythm exactly, I think. (Not that it's ever quite exact itself.)
The return of Deccan in the last line is also extremely satisfying. And I love the three rhymes in one and a half lines at the start. They're like the clunking out of the station before the train gets into its groove.
Even "lines" have (should that be "has"?) a double meaning here!
I like it a lot.
Cheers
David
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