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Train of Thought
NYC Commuter John Entwistle wrote this poem about his daily commute on the rails.
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Two slender ribbons wend and wind their ties from hill and day to day and dale.
They twine a twisted path to tumbling skies; they bind me like a parasitic vine.
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These steely bands that bound my path, these rails, this coiled pair of bonds constrains my course.
Clockwork predictability prevails: no change, no varied sequence, can I force.
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The mythos and the wisdom that endures insists this wintry fate is my resolve.
The certainty that prophecy obscures: no matter how a fortune will evolve, in helical predestination lives all of the possibilities life gives.
-- By John Entwistle, Holmdel
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