Long trains run these tracks

Day and night

Tagged with letters of certain weight

And yet

From where I stand

Cracks and glimpses

Obscured views

And yet

Is there not more

From where you stand

Attempted communications

Compete with mechanical rattles

Sight, sound, signal

Time to repeat that back

And yet

Long trains run these tracks

Our communication did lack

A certain nuance

Instead a dialect of

coincidence and missed chances

-Thomas Typewriter