Rolling Aimlessly Along by Melanie Browne

At the train museum
In Galveston
We notice a giant
sleeping
tabby cat

In one of the chairs
of the observation car
A little German toddler
is desperately trying
to wake him

"Vake up kitty-kat"
"Vake up kitty-kat"

He pulls gently on his tail
but this cat is a hobo
cat

riding the rails &
warming itself
in the island sun

until that one day
his luck runs out
and he will catch
the Westbound

Melanie Browne is a poet and fiction writer living in Texas. She has been published in various journals and 

online literary magazines such as Pulp Metal Magazine. She has also been included in several anthologies, 

including Zombies Galore and Everyday poets 2.