Best Boiler Poems

My dog's stomach sounded like a washing machine set on high and hot.
He was laying between my mother and me Off the couch,
but not because we told him to, the couch was too covered with stuff.
Pillows, a bag of knitting needles and yarn, technical devices,
strings...

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The Boiler Room



    In the Boiler Room, phones ringing,
        monitors tele-typing, secretaries screaming,
            everyone's moving, moving, moving way too fast!
    ...

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in the language of a cumulative push -
steam-roars,  boom, boom, boom
 in the belly of the beast, crimson-teeth 
rip-fire into-iron-flesh

b u b b l e s roll, 
under-understood, 
thunder-in down the pipe, 
bellowing with hiss ...

stok'd into a viscous-rumble
 s:trains-a-move-down-the-line
engine-urges-whine
up-the-track, clakity-clak
clakity-clak
in feet-of-head a head
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