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Train & Subway

“

I’ve been working on the railroad
All the livelong day,
I’ve been working on the railroad
To pass the time away.
Don’t you hear the whistle blowing?
Rise up so early in the morn.
Don’t you hear the captain shouting,
“Dinah blow your horn.”

Anonymous

“

The phonographs of hades in the brain
Are tunnels that re-wind themselves, and love
A burnt match skating in a urinal—

Hart Crane

“

New York, New York,
A helluva town.
The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down,
And people ride in a hole in the ground.
New York, New York,
It’s a helluva town!

Anonymous

“

John Henry told his captain,
Says, “A man ain’t nothin’ but a man,
And before I’d let your steam drill beat me down, Lord,
I’d die with this hammer in my hand.”

Anonymous

“

And why do I often meet your visage here,
Your eyes like agate lanterns—on and on
Below the toothpaste and the dandruff ads?
And did their riding eyes right through your side,
And did their eyes like unwashed platters ride?
And Death, aloft—gigantically down
Probing through you—toward me, O evermore!

Hart Crane

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