Wednesday, September 16, 2009

And as Our train Sang our last Song in C#

This song lived is a train in the key of me

Flattened under a fifth of whisky sound

That falls in an ascending scale of tiny fists

On the slattern land whale we rode into night


A young girl bent path in violin wooziness so deep

Inside her pedals roots danced against hell

Between steel crossties and shrinking Pocatello

She was a Viennese waltz and a red carpet too


The conductor asleep drank with mermaids

Who played broken ukuleles on shipwrecked coats

And as the train sang our last nightmare in C#

Darkness bowed an invisible cello strung to the moon


The chandelier hadn’t any will power left

Swinging a ticklish light on the denizen song

Us, the orchestra unable to hold the splintering baton

Was all smokeless air turned time signature by seat ticket


An aged pinup girl longed for a life sized martini glass

The walrus sucked vermouth with salted olive eyes

Toothpick teeth and a top hat large as a circus tent

Both wondering like I if the brakeman truly loves his lever

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