Other Side of the Track

Inspired by the week one prompt of "The Public Domain Poetry Project" by Tara Connor.

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The railroad track is miles away. 
Next to it a boulevard of dead 
good intentions. Bereft of dreams.
Brim-filled with people whose heartful flame
hasn't been extinguished by the harshest side 
of Life's coldest shoulder but instead usurped 
by Power's negligence in order to feed a blackhole
of trickle up wealth redistribution—
an estate ostentatious in urban dilapidation. 
Despite being up to their gills in squalor 
and poverty, the souls of the forgotten are more
steel than the railroad track 
meant to segregate and isolate. 
Tempered by thankless determination 
that what comes after them 
will at least have a pinch
of a better lot.

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Week One

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