On ADD                                                                                                                                                                                                      Abbie Mazour

 

Six trains simultaneously barrel towards one turntable

 

One wants to adjust his speed but

Two wonders if the electric blue sky is maybe

the reason Three is thinking about Simon’s cat and we’re

all worried about Four, who wants to know what Three even meant

while Five is whistling about his recent trip to

the Eisenhower tunnel where he and Six collided

 

 

and again the conductor will scold

You must always arrive on schedule.

 

But maybe we’re meant to collide

 

because what good is a

brain

compared to a

train

 

because a fish can’t be judged

by his ability to rewire his thoughts

after he got a D in engineering

 

because  he was too busy

trying to stop all his trains

from reaching the turntable

at the same time.