Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIFE, by ANGELO DE PONCIANA


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LIFE, by                    
First Line: Have you ever sat by the railroad track
Last Line: -- just emptys cuming back.
Variant Title(s): Empties Coming Back
Subject(s): Hope; Optimism


have you ever sat by the railroad track
and watched the emptys cuming back?
lumbering along with a groan and a whine, --
smoke strung out in a long gray line
belched from the panting injun's stack
-- just emptys cuming back.

i have -- and to me the emptys seem
like dreams i sometimes dream --
of a girl -- or munney -- or maybe fame --
my dreams have all returned the same,
swinging along the homebound track
-- just emptys cuming back.





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