One Sketch 210) #inktober2018 Day 21 - Prompt- Drain

Thousands pass each morning
Spewed out
From their homes in the South
They speak a language
Of money.

London's Waterloo and City Line, which is now part of the London Underground network, is nicknamed The Drain. Until the 1990s it was operated by British Rail, and used trains which were quite distinctive and different from the Tube.

One Sketch 209) #inktober2018 prompt 20 - breakable

I am a prison
What do you see
When you look in the mirror?
I see bars, and walls
I see locked doors.

Wow, that's a bit heavy, isn't it. Well, I do work with teenagers , and I think that we ignore their mental health issues at our own peril.
I did make another sketch today, another of my public transport sketches. Here t'is.

C'est Paris, une cite jolie

Si belle, et si plein d'desprit

Son Metro, si vite

Le meilleur, elite,

Donc j'aime aller la, oh oui, oui.

(This is what I was trying to say with my schoolboy French - 

It's Paris, a pretty city

So beautiful, so full of spirit

Its Metro, so fast

The best, the top drawer

So I like to go there, yes, yes. ) 

One Sketch 208) #inktober2018 Prompt 19 - Scorched

The Doctor is always a hit
Or such in my books have I writ
Perhaps then I ought
Recall when he fought
The fiery fiend from the pit

I was just looking for a different take on scorched, today's prompt, and came up with this beast from the Doctor Who story "The Satan Pit"

One Sketch 207) #inktober2018 Prompt - Bottle

Forgive me, but I have to ask
Whose idea was it then
Encasing ships in glass?

Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, by Yinka Shinobare, is an artwork that has at one time stood on the 'empty' 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square, London. The ship inside the bottle is a replica of Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory

One Sketch 206) #inktober2018 prompt 17 Swollen

Telosians have funny old heads

Or so it is quite often said

So large and so lumpy

I bet they get grumpy

When lifting them up from their beds.

Swollen made me think of swollen heads, which made me think of the Telosians from Star Trek's original pilot (subsequently used in Season 1's The Menagerie) . "Wrong thinking will be punished!" They don't make 'em like that any more.

One Sketch 205) (Tuesday 16th) #inktober2018 Prompt 16 Angular

Ah, Dizzy, now there was a guy
Who often did things on the sly
A devious sort
Or so it is thought
But then he was gone, and bye bye.

OK - so what do you do with angular, I thought? Which immediately led me to think of pyramids, as you do. Which led me to think of one of my favourite Victorian political cartoons, by one of my favourite Victorian political cartoonists, Sir John Tenniel. He's my absolute joint favourite along with the wonderful American, Thomas Nast. This is almost a direct copy, although I did stick an extra pyramid in which isn't in the original.

One Sketch 204) #inktober2018 prompt 15 - Weak

A girl called Elizabeth one
Was truly as chaste as a nun
Despite some men's urging
This queen stayed a virgin
Majestic, but not really fun.

Couldn't come up with much for the prompt weak. Then the Elizabeth I speech in Tilbury on the eve of the Spanish Armada. You know it - it was where she said "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but the hear and stomach of a concrete elephant" - come to think of it, that may well have been Blackadder.