New Hobohemia
...Hopped a rattler out of Akron.
Rode the high end all the way.
On the Erie-Lackawanna,
Made North Jersey by next day.
Between a bottle and a biscuit,
And that’s all I’m gonna say.
‘Twas a rude...
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Categories:
lackawanna, allegory, freedom,
Form: Lyric
At These Strange Hours
...I'm beginning to understand
catharsis.
I'm beginning to laugh cruelly
at this city
from Beginning to End,
from the ghost of the Lipton Tea Factory
to the Eerie Lackawanna Station
rushing with ...
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Categories:
lackawanna, absence, age, city, dark,
Form: Free verse
The Erie Lackawanna
...The Erie Lackawanna.
Was a friendly mamma!
The friendly service route.
Ran across the Southern Tier of New York.
Then across the Susquehanna.
Choo Choo went the train.
Down along the lower par...
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Categories:
lackawanna, america, places, satire,
Form: ABC