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The PistonTrain

Monday morning comes alive with the piston train speeding by, thousands of people gather at the gate and crowd the platform before it was too late.

Monday morning full of passion with hangover lingering in the shower, a change of clothes and alcohol on breath the impatient driver is starving to death but a passenger was just in time to save his life with a mug of coffee, spicy donuts, and cinnamon bagel. He has an appetite as big as a lark and when his passenger emerges from the dark he flips the script.

Monday morning stumble through the street and the traffic and city sound disrupt my heart beat; business women and business men tunnel through the crowd and the vendors on the other side bellowing in the air selling merchandise in the early morning. 

Everyone with conceited mind presses through the thick crowd and everyone talking very loud and even the quiet one expose his ambitions.

The crowd in the street began to swell and the small school bus and big trucks rubbing side by side speeding down the street trying to outdo one another and the children scream and shout and laugh out loud when the driver pull away from each other.

 Cars and van honking their horn as the traffic converge at the stoplight and an impatient fellow came out of nowhere and speed through the crowd and collide in a big tree on the side of the road.

There you go again; the traffic lined up around the bend and 
the cops were swift to pick up the dead and the traffic come to a standstill.
 
The ambulance began to shout with red lights blazing from the hill and busy nurses in the back resuscitating the deceased back to life but it was a feat on which destiny rely. 

The traffic began to flow and a radiant light burst through the sky and lit up the entire street.

Across the distant the sound of the Piston train has completed the sixth round and destiny billows through the angry town.

It did not stop at the usual stops and the people were unhappy about that, but the train picks up the speed and continue to barreled down the street. 
It got out of control and Monday morning began to roll and the piston train empty its contents in the bush and set ablaze. 

And birds in the bushes gather around to give their condolences to the relics scattered on the ground and the Piston train broke in several pieces.

Copyright © Christine Phillips

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