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On the Rails Again

Nelson Lowhim
4 min readJan 25, 2019

Remember that click clack soothing tone of trains from my childhood?

There’s something great about riding the train. That smooth ride.

Stretch out unlike the plane.

Read a little, won’t you? Write a little even. Here you don’t have to tuck in your elbows and feel the seat in front of you crash into your forehead.

Let’s watch the world go by. From a bucolic idyllic scene to that which harbors tools for the Anthropocene.

In Italy the train tickets show you how much less carbon you use as compared to a car or plane. Here there is no such sin tax. Only blood tax and amnesia.

I have loved trains since I was a child.

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Nelson Lowhim
Nelson Lowhim

Written by Nelson Lowhim

Writer, Artist, Immigrant, & Veteran observing our mad dance of apes. Check out my Patreon & show some love: https://www.patreon.com/nlowhim

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