Thursday, August 25, 2022

A Woman Hollering and a Train Passing By - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

A Woman Hollering and a Train Passing By

 

Next to the post office sags a trailer house

Where a fat old woman in a onesie

Was grilling something in her littered yard

Maybe some hot dogs, or just some dogs

 

A cigarette bounced about on her lip

As she screamed at me for driving by her life

Possibly she thought I was after her beer cans

Or her virtue, or her front-porch couch

 

A Santa Fe freight blew by, obscuring her words

And I accelerated, escaping her sorrows

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