The End
is where I put it
in wordy wordiness,
Walter
A Train Ride That Abruptly Ends Before the End Where It Begins
An engineer, in a fit, affixed his wrench in the engine bench.
A timid dentist, with a twist of wrist, wrenched the wrench free.
But a fleck of lint on the dentist’s wrist made a few fingers flick
which sent the wrench flung out the window.
The dentist’s eyes went wide.
The engineer’s brows frowned.
The world slowed frame by frame.
The wrench
flipped
and
twirled
and
winked
and
spun,
laughing
at
the joke
he’d
done.
Then a wonderful hand wearing a pearl wrist band
sprung out from a car of passengers,
and gripped the wrench in cerulean nail extensions.
The engineer pulled the breaks and, with the dentist, went
to wrench his wrench from those cerulean nail extensions.
But, to his surprise, the hand attached to eyes which with his locked.
An energy passed between and down the wrench went, dropped.
They both forgot the tool and blubbered like fools
as the dentist retrieved the wrench
and returned it to the engine bench.
