To Surreal, with Love

I won’t look at life straight anymore

I’ve had pain enuf enuf enuf enough 

Now I will laugh & laugh & laugh & laugh.

And when I die, turn the party lights on; 

slumber party with God! 

Small talk in the caboose; wrong side of the tracks
They ask that question every time. 
How’s the family? 

They don’t know what happened

but it’s easier now

to say 

They all died in a bad train wreck. 

And when they ask

Gee whiz! All of them? 

I say

Yeah, all of them. 

Even though really they’re all on vacation

in a family reunion I didn’t get the engraved 
or even the unengraved invitation to, with
selfies, groupies, and the laughing Wall of noise, 
I like summing it up like this 

All dead in a train crash. 

I got off on the wrong track in life.
But I'm an Engineer, and I know where
the coupling is.