railway sleepers

laying on the lines
stretched out on their backs
dreaming of the stars
and reading Kerouac's 'On the Road'

Collecting dreams in paper cups
memories in sacks
spill out guitars and violins
those temporal almanacs of orphaned odes

railway sleepers rotten teeth
railway sleepers trinket keepers

their tongues were jumbled years ago
and when their muscles slack
the weeds grow in between the
bones of broken backs and no abode

railway sleepers rotten teeth
railway sleepers trinket keepers