<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">SAFETY FACT 4</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:ArialMT"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><i>Railroad tracks,
trestles, tunnels, bridges, yards and rail cars are private property.</i></span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">When I can’t see the
family of a person</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">I can imagine they’re
their own property.</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">I can go wandering over
your bridges and trestles</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">your lonely but
in-constant-action tracks and yards</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">and weeds and tags your
body’s the entrance to.</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">A person can be owned but
not own or</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">the train goes the other
way toward</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">the opening point I
linger near.</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Bodies are mutually
exclusive—this not that—relax—</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">that’s the way to love
them mine including yours—</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">The tracks stretch night
and pale day.</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">I feel like I’d be moving
in the right direction</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">if I were behaving in the
bravest way</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">my bravest self imagines:</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">magnetic explorer!
Congress of crossings!</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Friction is one way to
generate heat</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">whether you want it or
not</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">what’s the biggest gift</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">a train can give us?</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">I don’t think it’s safety</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">It might be electricity</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">It might be outside the
soaked tradition chest.</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:ArialMT"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"></span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:ArialMT"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><b>Kate Schapira</b></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> is the author of <i>TOWN</i> (Factory School, Heretical
Texts, 2010), <i>The Bounty: Four Addresses </i>(forthcoming from Noemi Press before
year's end), and two more books forthcoming in 2012 from Stockport Flats and
Horseless Press, as well as chapbooks from Flying Guillotine, Horseless,
Rope-A-Dope and Cy Gist Presses, and Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. She lives in
Providence, RI, where she co-curates the Publicly Complex Reading Series and
teaches writing to college students and 4th grade scientists.</span></p>




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