while the two platforms stood still on their concrete
and the iron river started shaking a premonition
no soul was on knowledge of life's thrilling horror

groundbreaking longitude of the men's carrier
then the vision focuses on this diesel beast approaching
and people suddenly galore

but halt! oh the dream of the high civilization
human abundance growing fast as a tumor
and the first ones drop on the cruel metal stream

priest! rehearse your requiem, for they're not sinners
the magnitude of steps pushes the souls down
in the agony of inertia, they can't stop
as the machine smokes negative acceleration
and the ****** of the climbing ****** petrify bones

rockets and warm colors sprinkling
the still life of anatomy and other-worldly noises
awkward silence then gratefully destroyed
as the remaining mourn their own sanity and hours