Steep is the water tower
Painted off-blue to match the sky
Can't ignore the train
Night walks in the valley silent
You could swear the earth just moved
Can't ignore the train
Dust to be kicked up
In the crack-faced idle sinister town
Screen door to the rail station
Devil in her shoes
Run alongside the wasted tracks
Hem pins darted in her calves
Can't ignore the train
A spoiled girl with the tidiest apology
Somehow wedged inside her throat
Can't ignore the train
Patience their virtue
But I never could abide by
That dungeon life with electric light
A clean towel and a basin
Mantle figures mind their places
And laughs where they belong
Can't ignore the train
Through adventure
We are not adventuresome
Rage to share with a wardrobe mirror
In a room so beige and cold
Can't ignore the train
Window days saw the children pick
Their street games on thirty afternoons
Molly, the boys are
Starting in that rhyme again
Teasing more and more the second daughter
How she fell
Young locked in some folks' prison
Made to dwell
Till they're braiding her gray hair
Sitting in the wishing chair
Sitting in the wishing chair
Sitting in the wishing chair
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