When at last
the last fires burnt
out upon the prairie,
trains could be
heard passing,
mournful as whales.
There’s no remedy to being
second-rate, I heard
the brakeman say
as he & his red
light were pulled
forever into Missouri.
But still I waited
for you like a radio
tower, blinking
quietly in the night.
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