Outside, through paper-thin walls I heat the train whistle, hear it rumble away as it calls and this little city perhaps mildly hears it, otherwise ignores it, but not me. I smiled silently as it tooted a message across blacktops and rooftops, sat still as it chugged and cycled away. Pleased was I to hear the whistle blew, knowing somewhere off, you heard one too.
Besides the minor pull-over, the day--the weekend--cruised smoothly to a near top ten.
And these visions keeping hanging around
flickering on the silver screen of memory
like a black and white film without sound;
make this a romantic.
Oh this is an ornamental fate;
I should have known that the crash
of a shimmering blue
was the firework boom
of a "sneeze":
I love you.
Forever and ever,
for eternity,
I do.
~ck