The
Texas Madman
Rider of the Rails
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NOTE FROM TEXAS MADMAN:
The Texas Madman is temporarily Out of Service. Texas
Madman attributes his misfortune to the heightened alert status of the
police following the terrorist attacks in New York.
Just as Jack London wrote a book
on his life in a NY prison, Madman will be writing his own ìTrials and
Tribulationsî of Jail life.
Rail Tales/Contents
Introduction
Commentary-1
Tramps
Itís Time To Go
Hello Americans
Quality
The Chicago Belt Line
Twas The Month Before Christmas
Mistaken Identity
How to live on $15.00 a week
Commentary-2
Yes Little Darling
Oí Malley First Train
A Quick Lunch
My Last Westbound
Long Distance Rider
Commentary-3
Making a Nighttime Run
The Midnight Mail
Rolling thru Americas Backyard
Here's To you
Sitting In An Empty
The California Zephyr
Commentary-4
The Boogie Man
Time flies in the summer
The Crying Rose
The Northbound
United in death and a new life
Commentary-5
The Wendigo
Conrad's Guest
Hobo Terms
Commentary-6
Rail yard and Train Riding Animals
Springtime Moving
Get rid of the bum
Commentary-7
March of the titans
I asked God
Running around in circles
1
O Shaughnessy
The Phantom Drag
The Letter
Rainy Days
The U.P. Overland Route
Shall we gather at the river
The In between times
The Hobos Last Ride
What The Wind Said
Time Traveling
What is a Hobo
Sidetracked
Commentary-8
INTRODUCTION
The pleasure and admiration for the mass arts, in reaction, creates an appetite for a kind of art that is personal and individual in scale. POETRY is inherently individual, It Is A Voice. We donít have a single unfolding folk culture the way a more homogeneous country might have. No traditional aristocratic class as a hereditary curator, so the love of an art like poetry has no social props, and is somewhat invisible. Poetry slows us down, makes us think, and touches our hearts, in relation folk stories also touch a deep nerve that many of us try to bury. It is my sincere hope that all the Poetry, Folk stories, Humor, Trivia, Glossary of Hobo Terms, and Social Comments enclosed here may give touching, entertaining, and inspirational help to the reader. If not, well you arenít the only one to read these pages, or buy this book. And if I only inspire one person in the whole wide world with what I have written here, then all of my years have been worth living, and writing about!
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