A Poor Boy And His Dreams

A Poem

Published in

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2 min readAug 10, 2020

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Walking to and from school each day

Crossing train tracks

Seemingly endless in both directions

Wondering what would it be like

To hop aboard for a grand adventure

To see other parts of this huge country

John O'Neill

Written by John O'Neill

Writer for

Grab a Slice

Retired human services executive, living in Massachusetts near Boston, trying to be a better human being each day than the day before.

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