Caution — Rail CrossingI wait like the gasoline tanker at the railroad crossing.Behind me an ambulance screams and the red lights strobe their way into my brain. I wait for the klaxons to quiet, the red lights to go out, and the trembling arms to rise.How did it come to this? Published on The Laundry …
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Pittsburgh A creased wedding photograph of a woman.A Mass Card when she passes.The facts of her lifesupport no further conclusions.About the necessity of ambulances.The man who held her in his childish embrace.She is the silence that avalanches down toa mute son with too many mothers.Not enough uncles to help put the pigs backinto the sties. …