Train Notes I

 

they wait at the crossings
watching
still
not waving
somber
like a funeral
going past
faces
going past
blurring with
the discarded
the forgotten
along the tracks
they go past
kid in a bright knit cap
hanging on a
road ends here
sign
man at attention
snow shovel at parade rest
green plastic chairs planted
in a dirty white snow bank
little old lady in a big blue coat
white hair ablaze
in the morning sun
couch overturned
boarded windows
warped abandoned
blurring together
they go past
somber
they stand
at the crossings
still not waving
watching
like a funeral
watching
their lives go past

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