Train Song
Train Song
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Brand New. Trade paperback (4.5" x 7"); 136 pages. Train Song by Walker Lee ©2015. Printed & published by Last Word Press in Olympia, WA.
“Psst!” Hitchhiker. “Wanna hear a story?”
It’s hard to understand.
“I walked into 761 sunrises.”
Map lint. Road dust.
I went East.
It had been my honest attempt getting off the road.
Other than a few road trips, one train ride, a jaunt to
Chicago, hitchhiking down to LA once, and the odd
camping trip or weekend bike tour, I had been in the
same town for nearly a year and a half.
It was the longest I had lived anywhere since I was seventeen.
And it capsized spectacularly.
My relationship fell over a cliff. My beloved shack, the home
I had built, was a smoldering pile of ash. In a desperate
attempt to pay back rent, I had borrowed a .22 and blown my
best friend’s brains out -- a little brown goat named Buster.
I failed.
So I left.
Homeless on the road beats wallowing
destitute under broken hope.