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Train To Paradise

Hearing the clacks of the railway tracks Hoping to see Paradise by early morn. Reading the backs of the elevator stacks, I was returning to the place I was born. When evening  fell, I couldn't tell The direction the train was headed for, With no soul to sell, I was running from hell, Knowing the devil was coming to settle a score. I shook in fear and tried to stand clear, When the devil burst in through the door. Smoke began to clear when the he came near With his ashes falling on to the floor. He came from the past, riding his burning mast, Taking my soul many nights before, My fate was cast and I almost asked If he had voted for Clinton and Gore. My journey was long and the distance was wrong, As my train raced through the endless night. I clutched the tong of an angel's song And was left in the land of the right. "Your station's close by," was the conductor's cry, Yes....I like travelling a little slow some days, If I wanted to fly I would go out and buy, A ticket on Northwest to watch the Blue Jays. Leaving the tracks wearing my best pair of slacks, So this is Paradise....the place where I was born. Looking for the facts, I checked the magazine racks, And my mind almost blew at the sight of porn. Hell, the angels were bare but they didn't care, They were sheltered here from their naked past. The weather was fair and the wind swept my hair I knew I was free of the devil at last. 

Copyright © September 2000 arvin r. reder


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