POEM
                  By Ramond Ramcharitar
             

            Something poetic there is about train tracks.

            Something about the patience in the steady
            parallelism; of the ablated shale and gravel lying
            along the theoretical space between the tracks--

            Something sad, like the existential green weed
            defying the winter to challenge the grayness
            between the outflung stations of the world.

            Something joyous there is about the sudden curves
            away from the endless straightness; the junction
            Boxes sentrying the spaces between towns:

            Something huge and furious there is
            that rages through the untiring trains
            and the souls racing toward their final end.