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Train of Thought

NYC Commuter John Entwistle wrote this poem about his daily commute on the rails.

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Two slender ribbons wend and wind their ties from hill and day to day and dale.

They twine a twisted path to tumbling skies; they bind me like a parasitic vine.

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These steely bands that bound my path, these rails, this coiled pair of bonds constrains my course.

Clockwork predictability prevails: no change, no varied sequence, can I force.

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The mythos and the wisdom that endures insists this wintry fate is my resolve.

The certainty that prophecy obscures: no matter how a fortune will evolve, in helical predestination lives all of the possibilities life gives.

-- By John Entwistle, Holmdel

 


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