Eastbound I-290

Eastbound I-290
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Player Dog Rest In Peace. 
This epitaph 
This graffito 
This haunting inscription 
Lingers on 
In white on rust 
On girders laid 
Across the road 

(Player Dog 
Rest In Peace) 
Player Dog 
Are you resting now? 
Player Dog 
Could you know how? 

And how, 
How did you come 
To find this peace 
To earn this rest 
To leave this world 
Of white 
On rust 
On girders laid 
Across the road? 

Do the passers by 
Down below care? 
Could they know just what 
Your existence held 
Or what let go 
Or what gave in 
Or what gave out 
That all we know 
Is white 
On rust 
On girders laid 
Across the road 

Time erases, 
Slowly now 
These simple words 
Which truly are 
All I know 
Of you 

Player Dog Rest In Peace 
This eulogy 
This graffito 
This haunting inscription 
Lingers on 
And on and on 
In white on rust 
On girders laid 
Across the gray 
Within my mind 

(c) 1995 Norman Dziedzic Jr.