He put his pennies on the tracks and waited for the train to come and crush it. After the train had passed, he collected his flattened pennies and regarded them.
When he ran out of pennies, he put his fingers on the tracks and waited for the train to come and crush them. After the train had passed, he tried to collect his severed fingers but could not. Instead, he regarded the stumps.
mwpm is
the author of CRYPTOPOEMS, published
by The Blasted Tree. His writing has appeared in Untethered, (parenthetical),
filling Station, Touch the Donkey, Our Teeth,
and Plenitude. mwpm lives and writes
in Kitchener, Ontario.