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A coal train racing wildly to wherever
The next bend a new view
Smoke screens and blurs options
Regenerating vigor through self-destruction
Unloading its own black life into iron cages
The fire is its salvation
One shovel at a time it betrays itself
It contains its own life in car after car
Yet feeding the fire leads it outward into the “future”
A true oxymoron
Juxtaposition to life!