One summer day
you put on your snowmobile suit
put on your headphones
attached to your pocket radio
took your pillow
and laid down on the train tracks

I still can't believe it really
when I think about how black your black
must have been

and one day
on the garage steps
while sharing a smoke
with Alison
we talked about her dying soon
and she told me how afraid she was
that there would be no one there
that she knew

and I said don't be scared on that one Alison
of course there are people there waiting for you
Nanny and Grandad
and Brenda too