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| Because it is Pretty and Sad |
| by William Taylor Jr. |
| Glancing out the window of the train
I realize I've all but missed my favorite month in the city the seasons exist only in name and the days and weeks are streamlined grey but now October trees all bright orange brown and crazy yellow pass by in a parade of colors I'd all but forgotten and here outside this window is my America miles of chain link fences protecting overgrown yards and bus depots parks where kids play ball and families watch half bored outdoor parties with food and balloons and drugstore masks a pretty woman on a metal bench reading a book and twirling her hair junkyards piles of metal and plastic that once were cars signs saying things like Redwood City and Stay Behind the Yellow Line worldly possessions stuffed in shopping carts vast fields strewn with litter satellite dishes on old shingled roofs little red wagons and donut shops strip malls and endless parking lots smoke from backyard grills brown and grey boxlike buildings where people live their lives as best they know it all appears then is gone so quickly there is no time to dwell much upon the meaning but to see and to remember is enough I wear my headphones and play the same song again and again because it is pretty and sad the train moves on and the feeling is pleasant and all I know is I don't want to be anywhere. |
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| Feb. 2008 |
| 102 |