Cattle And Cane

I recall a schoolboy coming home
Through fields of cane
To a house of tin and timber and in the sky
A rain of falling cinders from time to time
The waste memory-wastes

I recall a boy in bigger pants like everyone
Just waiting for a chance his father’s watch
He left it in the showers from time to time
The waste memory-wastes

I recall a bigger brighter world
A world of books and silent times in thought
And then the railroad
The railroad takes him home
Through fields of cattle
Through fields of cane from time to time
The waste memory-wastes
The waste memory-wastes
Further, longer, higher, older