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[ On Poetry ] Reading Railroad

Sometimes watching a train  
at a crossing can feel like  
impatience and exasperation  
had enough time to make a baby  
in the backseat as  

car  
 
after  
 
car  
 
after  
 
car  
 
goes  
 
by  
 
And sometimes, a poem  
is a really long ass train  
because the author kept  
 
adding  
 
and  
 
adding  
 
and  
 
adding  
 
cars  
 
at every railyard in America  
 
Yet it's inconvenient spacings  
that kill momentum of the multiple  
engines required for towing  
and pushing such a titanic vessel  
slowing down  
 
the reading  
 
to a  
 
crawl big  
 
time if too  
 
many are  
 
inserted into unnecessary  
 
locations of the locomotive  
 
Size doesn't matter  
 
but icebergs can  
 
while an ill conceived  
train of thought  
often ends with derailment  
before the caboose finally  
arrives  
 
 
 
Written by JohnnyBlaze
Published | Edited 17th Jan 2022
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