Thursday, April 14, 2011

endoftheline


Cold steel, have you ever touched it? 
Locomotives ------ take us west.
Or else take our souls.

(Hey ______, when you get this letter, I'll already be gone.)

Imagine, if you will, a small bird. 
He hops alongs the fence,
Meditating on the 
Way the sun darkens skin and
Lightens hair.

Guess what.
That bird is fertilizing the grass.
Suicidal sparrows are common.
I actually died once, thorax halved by train.
I remember it like I remember my first 
Knife throwing accident (it was no accident).
Everyone's always whispering
As I walk by,
THAT GUY IS GOING NOWHERE.
Now I can see why.


Photo by Fred Watford.  Words by Randy Conner

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