Off the Rails ~ Don’t Race the Devil

John Hansen
2 min readJun 15, 2022

The locomotive rattles by,

Its wheels hugging the rails.

No slowing down through crossings,

Don’t let those boom-gates fail.

It pulls into the station,

Freight to collect and drop.

Air brakes restrict its progress,

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John Hansen

Freelancer, poet, and short fiction writer, who loves experimenting with different styles and genres. Writing is in my soul and it won't leave!