Trainwatching Lit

TRAINWATCHING LIT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjjhzuHnY34

“…as in theater, a play is a representation 
of an event, while a film is a representation 
of a representation… Nothing pejorative is 
intended here, of course: all art is artifice; 
it is this artifice, this metaphorical distancing 
which gives art its reality, its power.” 
—Edward Albee, Stretching My Mind: 
The Collected Essays
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Movies bore me now—
The same with TV sitcoms
I’m more into Trainwatching

Out here west of Emporia—
The Naked Ape Human Factor
Seems to be more distant

The way the BNSF trains—
Wail away at the crossings
Seems more real to me

It gives reality its artform—
I’m bored to death anyway
So here I sit enjoying it