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TRAIN SMASH

don’t panic

this is just
a poem

lots of things, items,
that it is not

not an emergency
(State of Emergency)
not a
wormhole or
nuclear weapon
not an
insurrection
not a train smash

not a thing
we typecast as a comet
flouting the laws of physics

not something
so desperate to be read
it will die if you deign to

going to
try to survive even
if you refuse
to read a word

writer reader
even as the ground beneath
our feet gives
superstructures tumble

good odds we can get
through this
together
poles apart though
we may be
creatures
     if not of connection
at least
continuity