If you want to keep up with the times,

Just sit and watch a train go by.

Read the graffiti as your morning news.

Get the blues while the price of tea in China rises.

When pork bellies are up

And oil is down,

And leaking hydraulic fluid out on the ground,

And the stench of garbage being shipped as freight

Is making you late to your 9 to 5,

Then don’t drive away.

Don’t try to find some other street

That that the train doesn’t cross.

I’m at a loss for what to say here,

Except that it’s a chance to know something 

Very deep,

Beyond your belief system,

If you will sit and stare at the vivid view

Of the modern freightway’s coronary spew

Passing rapid transit by in front of you

While you wait for it.

-jenn