Responding to a Facebook post I got a vision:

I have my head down

listening on the rail,

listening for the train a-comin’,

but I have my eyes

closed.

It’s coming,

damnit it’s coming,

listen to the train,

listen to the track,

why won’t I

open

my

eyes?

 

 

Here is the post, another version of that vision.

and my response:

History is perfect hindsight, but I guarantee you that
America’s Fascism, Inc. will look way different than the Third Reich’s did. It will come perhaps as a new version of the Civilian Conservation Corps, doing infrastructure work, providing a paycheck, getting folks thinking that maybe we Americans can at least do good and have a job and a purpose. Then we will start to sing songs together and then we wear uniforms as we sing our songs and then…well, like I said it will probably not be exactly that or even close to that, but we better damned well be watching with one eye cast out as we put an ear to the railroad tracks. There will be no blast of warning from that train that bears down upon us all.

And here are the two songs competing in my soul as I carry on down my blind road: Dylan’s “Slow Train Runnin'” and Warren Zevon’s “Nighttime in the Switchin’ Yard”.

Slow Train Coming – Bob Dylan from summer soul channel on Vimeo.

 

 

Listen to the train,

listen to the track,

Listen to the train,

listen to the track.

Listen to the train,

listen to the track.