double feature

by Thomas M. McDade

Once a Locomotive

Assembly Plant

It houses twenty

Cinemas now

In the Parking lot

You could

Get lucky

For the rails

Have not strayed

An Amtrak

Might just pass

Headlight aglow

Like a score of

Projector beams

And first

Timers might

Wonder if

Their tickets

Will be ripped

Or punched

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BIO: Thomas M. McDade is a 79 year old resident of Fredericksburg, VA, formerly CT and RI. He is a graduate of Fairfield University. McDade is twice a U.S. Navy Veteran serving ashore at the Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Center, Dam Neck Virginia Beach, VA and aboard the USS Mullinnix (DD-944) and USS Miller (DE / FF-1091). His fiction has most recently appeared in The Paradox Literary Magazine.