.           Expansion joints on
            rails, do for wheels,
            what cobblestones
            will, to horse shoes.

            Rat a tat rat a tat tat
            is the equivalent of
            clip, clop, clip, clop,
            that’s onomatopoeia.

            Dry saliva, teeth of
            steel, growl, groan,
            growl groan one can
            hear a saw dog bark.

           Or a frozen cat being
           sliced in a band saw
           has an audibly distinct
           Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeow.

           Iron horse approached
           and the stallion reared,
           territorial nickering to
           ******* the mares.