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By Jack Joseph Smith

The train moved nicely then Swinging through the middle lands Good birthday party All here Ruby at ten said David James and I will stay Bob decided on his own to stay Out on the tracks the car just stopped Big train coming down with wide eyes for glass and big lips for steell looking like brass There were seven into the driv'in Mother and father and kids but one was paralitic Which means alot of work when they freeze as the oldest lady went from the car but a pebble stopped her lock back on doom

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A birthday party and a train ride precede a family car stopping on the tracks. The train approaches while seven people, including a paralitic family member, face the danger, and an older woman's movement ends at a pebble and lock.

The speaker gives the train wide eyes and big lips, then turns to the work of moving a family member and the frozen people in the car. The last line names doom without explaining the outcome.

Claude

A typed poem of twenty-two rows describes a family car stopped on train tracks: 'Big train coming down / with wide eyes for glass', and ends 'but a pebble stopped her lock / back on doom'.

The poem sets a birthday and a family outing against sudden danger, in short plain lines.