Ten thousand songs about trains.

Maybe more.

Long gone trains carrying my baby away.

Big silver trains carrying me home to mama.

Fast trains.

Slow trains.

Midnight trains.

Morning trains.

Downtown trains.

Blues songs.

Country songs.

Gospel songs.

Sad songs.

Heartbreak songs.

Songs about hope.

My train.

My song.

So long ago now it feels like.

You feel like.

On a train home with our last kiss on the tip of my tongue. Right there on the tip. I taste you still.

I get off at my stop and step out into the heat. Reach up to put a fresh cigarette up to my lips.

And there you are, fresh still on the tips of my fingers.

Soft scent.

Woman.

Trains.

Train songs.

It’s your birthday.

This train song is for you.