Solo 1: Have you ever sat by the r. r. track

& watched the emptys cuming back?

All: lumbering along with a groan and a whine,--

smoke strung out in a long gray line

belched frum the panting injun’s stack

Solo 1: --just emptys cuming back

Solo 1: i have…and to me the emptys seem

like dreams i sumtimes dream—

All: of a girl…or munney…or maybe fame…

Solo 1: my dreams have all returned the same,

swinging along the homebound track

…just emptys cuming back.

The author purposely misspelled the words in this

poem to carry out the atmosphere of the poem.