Montauk Train # 20

Montauk Train # 10

8:18 out of Jamaica EMD diesel hauling passengers East All the way east To the last stop Montauk___ Last day of autumn December 20 Gray morning Almost winter 34 degrees outside Comfortable on the train Another two hours to Montauk Passing through the Long Island suburbs Small houses From the 50s and 60s For the parents of baby boomers Fleeing the city The small apartments The dirty streets The others___ Safe clean and space to breathe Beaches only minutes away Living the American dream__ Still looks that way From the 8:18 to Montauk No one on the streets Only cars One deer by a pond No other sign of life___ I know this life Suburbs of the South Shore In the Blue Hills South of Boston These houses So familiar Even after leaving the suburbs in 1976__ The East Village, London, Paris, Hamburg, Yucatan, LA, Bali, Thailand so many remote places Far from the suburbs But not today Just outside the window Family house, Christmas decorations, empty Street, bare trees, more marshes now Soon out of the suburbs On the 8:18 to Montauk Eastward bound__