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A Couple of October Options

D. R. James

An invisible train’s distant whistle
this unseasonably warm
yet seasonably blustery early hour
plays a fetching, come-hither counterpart
to the crickets’ mad ventriloquism,
their ceaseless, crass rasping
somewhere outside the open door.

On a morning like this – long before
the garbage truck will rumble by –
sprawled on the familiar hide-a-bed
that doubles as the center mezzanine
in the psycho-surgical theater
of your own emotional vivisection,
you’re torn between:

– critiquing this perpetual allegory
in which Long-Suffering and Proaction
engage in their stylized dialog
about your non-unfolding life and

– coveting the rustic romanticism
of a hobo riding the rails,
whose only concern is to time his roll
into the liberty of an accelerating boxcar
so as to minimize his potential
for slipping from its lip and clipping
his otherwise unencumbered body.

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