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Train Whistles and Ghosts [If the Night Belongs to Lovers]

from Dance Music For The Condopocalypse by Non State Actors

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Poem originally published in "For Those Who Can No Longer Sell Their Plasma for the First Time", by Brando Chemtrails.

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If the night belongs to lovers,
then the parts of the morning long before it gets light belong to train whistles and ghosts.
When your cities biggest street becomes a private place,
and the nightclubs and night lights have gone dim,
the party animals and predators and everyone else asleep
except the train conductors and greasy spoon washers
and the truck stop and Wal-Mart workers with the biggest families to feed and us.
I don't remember why I'm awake this time around,
could be got picked on by some pissed spirit
wanting someone to take revenge on the person who separated them from their tissue and fat,
could be got woken up by the whistle of a freight train that runs all day
that we can't pick out underneath the uproar
of thousands of moaning motors
we've taught ourselves to no longer hear.
Trains howling in mourning for the things the little men made it do,
the body on the tracks it didn't want to break,
the bison and people gunned down through its windows,
the holes blasted through mountains to fit it through.
Maybe got picked on by malicious ghosts at the end of an orgy when everyone else is asleep,
bringing sleep paralysis, questions, ugly pictures never quite finished,
full of pity for a person that might be me,
burning like the temple of a dying religion in an air raid,
knowing if my foundations survive till the dawn,
I'll be more beautiful for the rubble and ashes.
The reason doesn't matter.
It's the kind of time when no one's up to notice a little crash or bang
or a couple people running under a fence
through a hole in a boarded up window,
a car driving faster than the black and white signs tell them to.
The cops aren't looking for trouble, they're looking at their watches
the good Samaritans are dreaming about putting someone else in jail
and we can all be in charge of the blocks we walk on,
or ourselves.
Because the night may belong to lovers,
but times like this belong to us.

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from Dance Music For The Condopocalypse, released July 19, 2014

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