And So We Ran...

The train arrived at the station---

on time and as expected

larger than life---

literally

And you and I sat in our red velvet chairs,

with our stove pipe hats,

and our hoops,

with no popcorn,

and the visage of the Magnificent Ambersons,

because at the time, they were the most magnificent of them all

We expected a lot of ourselves---

and of each other---

but never once did we expect to come face to face with the luscious likes of the locomotive