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Mar. 21st, 2001 06:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbminxI'm tired but I just can't seem to get comfortable enough to drop off to sleep. The Headache comes back when I lie down. My neck and my left shoulder are both cracklingly, excruciatingly stiff.
Around 6AM I heard (not for the first time) a train, the whistle and the actual sound of the train itself. Trouble is... I live on an island. There are no train tracks here. The nearest train tracks are... at least three miles away.
My dad lives a few blocks from some train tracks. When I've stayed at his house, near Cleveland, the train is loud enough to keep you awake if you aren't asleep yet, but not likely to wake you up if you're already asleep.
What I am hearing is almost as loud.
Could I possibly be hearing the train three to five miles away as though it's less than a mile away? I don't hear the train at other times of day.
I mean, I live a few blocks from the damned Atlantic Ocean, and I can't hear that at 6AM, and there is so, so much of it that I can't bear to think of it, or I feel it wanting to swallow me whole. I don't go walking on the beach, it makes me shudder out there, the unimaginable dark airless depth not too far away. I can't hear millions of square miles of ocean a few thousand feet away but I can hear a freight train a few miles off. Does this make sense?
Around 6AM I heard (not for the first time) a train, the whistle and the actual sound of the train itself. Trouble is... I live on an island. There are no train tracks here. The nearest train tracks are... at least three miles away.
My dad lives a few blocks from some train tracks. When I've stayed at his house, near Cleveland, the train is loud enough to keep you awake if you aren't asleep yet, but not likely to wake you up if you're already asleep.
What I am hearing is almost as loud.
Could I possibly be hearing the train three to five miles away as though it's less than a mile away? I don't hear the train at other times of day.
I mean, I live a few blocks from the damned Atlantic Ocean, and I can't hear that at 6AM, and there is so, so much of it that I can't bear to think of it, or I feel it wanting to swallow me whole. I don't go walking on the beach, it makes me shudder out there, the unimaginable dark airless depth not too far away. I can't hear millions of square miles of ocean a few thousand feet away but I can hear a freight train a few miles off. Does this make sense?
