Pennies on the Railway Tracks
Old copper pennies are easily squashed
If you lay them on the track when the loco approaches
When they are as mashed as sweet potatoes
They are almost the same colour as
Old stogies retrieved from the ballast
Brown, grey and greasy with age and misuse
Can show their grief like discarded detritus
Three roads congealed in an unctuous wood
Surrounded by discarded rubber tyres
Slowly decaying and ever so slowly indeed
Becoming the commentary of our lives - our failures
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