“Loneliness clarifies
—Philip Larkin, Here
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It’s a little on the edge of—
things, it doesn’t really go
anywhere by design you know
Swerving east and west—
Burlington-Santa Fe Railroad
No longer very romantic
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No Santa Fe Super Chief—
Cary Grant & Eva Marie Saint
NORTH BY NORWEST romance
Freight trains instead grinding—
Away off to solitudes we no
Longer know much about
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Industrial shadows of some—
Other zone, no more stops at
The gutted Santa Fe Station
The surprise of small towns—
Skies and scarecrows, elevators
Swerving at dawn to solitude
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What ends is the land—
Suddenly beyond the reach
Of a railroad station
Unfenced existence back—
Again, facing the sun, out
Of reach and untalkative
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