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By the Tracks<br />
You died over there by the tracks<br />
that run between our houses,<br />
when the ladder on the train<br />
clipped the back of your head,<br />
opening it like a melon<br />
for half the world to devour.<br />
Some said they could see splotches<br />
of your brains on the gravel<br />
where the ties protruded beneath the rails.<br />
I found only old pennies,<br />
flattened by the roaring wheels<br />
we listened for, playing our game,<br />
two careless boys under stars and clouds,<br />
waiting, breathless, vibrations rumbling<br />
through us like the quake of teenage love,<br />
jumping to safety just in time.<br />
Timing you said was essential<br />
as you lifted the dead rat,<br />
the trophy we had found while<br />
hunting in the woods, and dropped it<br />
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