When I Tell My Friends I’m Researching the Railroads

I can’t tell them about the shackles

without them telling me about Shaquille O’Neal.

 

I can’t tell them about black death

without them telling me about their great-uncle from Ireland.

 

I can’t tell them about Angel Island

without them telling me to let them play Devil’s Advocate.

 

I can’t tell them about trains inventing time zones

without them telling me that the Pomodoro method would help my writing.…

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