Train to Sudbury

Saw him Friday
spoke for an hour
about problems and alcoholics
talked about life, its struggles

gave him
twenty-five bucks and wished him
the best –
thanked me, said I was a pal

hours later the radio report,
unidentified man discovered dead
of natural causes, on a train
on a train to Sudbury.

© Richard L. Provencher
Website: www.wsprog.com/rp/

First published Winter 1984
Vol 33 No 2 ISSN 0495-9701
Tower Poetry Society
University of Hamilton
Dundas, Ontario