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Nine Minutes - Beau

At 4 am the 3 19 was hurrying through the night

John Ridges saw the dull reflected glowing panel light

Beneath his hands

The warm controls responded to his touch

As he drank a little coffee

Though he didn't care for much

He also had a bite to eat

A thing he liked to do

The cutting here was long and clear

The engine driver knew

And then a strange thing happened

Felt like something breaking free

As the lines appeared to lift a fraction momentarily

And the time was 4:03

He never saw or understood why anything was wrong

The glowing gauges disappeared

His instruments had gone

He heard a sound

Though what it was his mind could not deduce

He couldn't see as others could

The giant breaking loose

Amid the screams of tortured steel

He tried to stop the train

The flying sparks before the eyes

That wouldn't see again

Were coming through the cabin floor

Now gone without a trace

And Driver Ridges felt the cooling wind upon his face

The grinding ceased

The stricken train came slowly to a halt

And some survivors still maintain

It was all the driver's fault

But no one caught a fleeting glimpse

Among the trackside pines

Of the smiling face of the one

Who placed the rocks upon the lines

And the time was 4:09