Railroad

Iron veins ran through

the heartland defining

the body America took

over the natural world

because somehow it

wasn’t good enough

we had to have T.V.s

and quick dinners to

eat in front of them like

a Pullman from New 

York to Boston we had

to have more of the power 

that the railroad represented

America became America’s

Team because it couldn’t

lose and because it was

powered by steam in Chicago

we lived next to the railroad

track I only woke up at night

when the Special didn’t pass by
on time and shake the earth.