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in traveling along
railroad man knows every song
of the dispossessed and maligned
all these capers cast out the devil
in territories where houses blacken out
you know how to completely disappear
become part of the fading cloud
a band of thieves and the unset stones
ripen for the railroad man
uncap the whiskey to misalign the gears
make faces into the mirror the first time
one sees oneself see the shelf of lie
the grand scale of masonic death machines
that plague by their near visible nature
you've disappeared before
in factories and downtown ghost centers
did you feel the heart attack well up?
a guest in your own home
the books that never get read
in the closets of the almost dead
where each new image will conform