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Traveling on a train
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Through the night
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Through the nowhere of Nevada
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Human settlements look like
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Mere patches of light,
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Scintillating strings on the horizon
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Or glows in the sky beyond the horizon.
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The staccato throb of the wheels
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Makes time seem abated or elongated.
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The headlights of the cars
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On the parallel highway are
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Luminous lines
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Moving smoothly into the night
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With the tail lights disappearing
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On a linear trajectory.
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The long-haul trucks are
--Rectangular arrays of lights
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Also moving smoothly
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In and out of view
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All along parallel lines.
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