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train

(transcribed from Book Two of my diary)

Wednesday June 24, 1992 11:30PM

Yesterday I called Wendy on a whim and drove out there and we walked on the railroad tracks by her house. We got to a tressell(sp) and when we were below it, we heard a train coming. So I clambered up the rock slope (I was barefoot) and barely popped my head up to see the train. It was close. So I reached up just my hand up between the ties of the tressell and placed on the track the Diet Coke can from which Wendy had finished drinking. The I stood below the railroad tracks. The train was Hauling Ass. It was traveling very fast. The whole tressell was like humming before the train got to it. Then louder and louder and WWWHHOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM The train blasted over my head. I was so impressed. I watched it from that vantage point for a sec, and then climbed out beside the tressell. There were water drops flinging off each car. They seemed to be moving forward relative to the train as they came off. I noted that the last car was not a caboose, so I got a rock, and tossed it into the last truck of the last car. Clinnk! It may as well have been hit by a baseball bat. The rock flew about a hundred feet. (Really) and landed within 8 or 10 feet of Wendy and then it bounced past her. Holy shit that could have knocked her out...

I was looking for the can, when Wendy said, "I caught it!" She had fucking caught the can one hundred feet from where I put it on the track. Wow.

Then Wendy and I saw Batman Returns. It was stupid. Then we watched a lightning storm until 1am and then I left but just went to Ma's house in Magnolia. It turned out that Fred was there, too, so we spent the night there. Later. permalink