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Anesthesia

Melanie Kay Schaafsma

The train makes its morning debut to the city.
New passengers move up the stairs, sleepy-eyed and numb.
The train to Chicago gathers its strength, produces speed,
and I hear that familiar anesthetic sound.
It is that friendly mechanical chirp that lulls me into another
milkshake-thick memory.
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEA
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 288
Words 47
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
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