Saturday, April 30, 2016

Who Wears Casey Jones's Bandana at Bandana Square?

Daddy, what’s a
train? Is it
something I can ride?
Bored in 1959 when Grandpa
brought me to see
the Chicago L.
The Children’s
Museum's now a business-
and-rehabilitation center.
Yellow brick railroad buildings 
entire expanse in back 
a chain-link fence.
Metal shopping cart rammed into it
on the other side
where the real tracks run.
Blue spray-paint script.
I love it,
but I can’t read it.