Training Session

flashing red lights red and white stripes crossing the road where tracks are laid whistle so loud heard by the whole town the warning the engineer played steel wheels running on rails pushing and pulling staying on the trail clu cluck clu cluck clu cluck the heart beat of a living train mixing with the whistle and engine blair from my car i saw the cars that followed the engine of the train and started counting one by one as they whistled by and into the plain cars that carried coal everyone the same except the ones with graffiti usually some ones name there were cars that carried cars and tanks with propain boxes they could put on truck and back on trains again there were some old box cars that were empty doors slid open wide so inviting to a hobo who could just jump inside i thought about the places the bridges the train crossed the places i'd like to see before the time is lost the mountains the rivers and the plains the train crossed then i saw the Eden men thought they'd lost spread out in the places that very train crossed