Tag: trains
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Fading Summer
I’m remembering railroad tracks skirting the Hudson, a bridge crossing leading down to the river. We stand there in the summer dusk, watching the sleek streamliners pass under. Shades of gray and blue and white lightning stripes. They slip past quickly, silently, bringing up the markers for the end of an era. We’ll not see…
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Penn Station
Penn Station in New York had been cleared down to the business end. The grand edifice, grander some said than its uptown rival Grand Central Terminal, had been leveled. Actually, it was like something beautiful had been scraped off the earth, leaving the functional under bits. What was leveled was non functional, it was just…
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Danny and Bets
He took her hand, “I’m sorry you feel that way. I would have hoped you’d understand.” “What’s to understand? We’ve been together since, well since we shouldn’t have been together.” She was crying a little now, “But I know, I mean I should have known, I can’t compete with those fancy eastern girls you met…
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Break-up Time Machine Prompt
He took her hand, “I’m sorry you feel that way. I would have hoped you’d understand.” “What’s to understand? We’ve been together since, well since we shouldn’t have been together.” She was crying a little now, “But I know, I mean I should have known, I can’t compete with those fancy eastern girls you met…
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NIGHT ON THE CARDINAL
Creeping through darkened towns Trying to picture people, traffic, bustle Its 2am but you’re not sleepy The porter wants to make up the bed but you’d rather sit up He mumbles something and returns to his own compartment to sleep You leave a town and you’re back in the country Dark other than mercury lights…