The rules are:
→Below 45 miles per hour, at all designated crossings, 15 seconds before,
but no more than 20 seconds (before).
→O for short – for Long
The standard pattern remains two long, one short and one long
__ __ O _____
→Most importantly*do not mistake: O __ for __O
One means inspecting the breaks due to malfunction,
the other signals approaching a station.
→The restriction is now under a lawn mower,
horns must be kept lower than 106 dB,
*Pain has been recorded at 125 dB*
The train relentless last night when then rooms dark-in
the horn and heavy steel wheels push on past
Silent , one-eared heads
-interrupting- -the thought- ---process—yes---where were –
Before, it just came again...come again
Two tracks too much
Amtrak a freight of BNSF Railway
Park and Ride, park in the driveway, sit in traffic on the freeway-
Toss and Spin, Smolder. Seriously?
People are lined with pennies to pinch under cog and sun, coal for going places.
In the midnight, there must be quarters.
It is called interest. It builds, accrues, and you rarely notice it, until you
start stealing thoughts on rails
laid down on the line
with the precision of an air horn
rolling over
corrugated sheets under tin-eared scalps.
Painting by Paul Signac [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.