Cattle and Cane

<br>I recall a schoolboy coming home<br>through fields of cane<br>to a house of tin and timber<br>and in the sky<br>a rain of falling cinders<br>from time to time<br>the waste memory-wastes<br>I recall a boy in bigger pants<br>like everyone<br>just waiting for a chance<br>his father`s watch<br>he left it in the showers<br>from time to time<br>the waste memory-wastes<br>I recall a bigger brighter world<br>a world of books<br>and silent times in thought<br>and then the railroad<br>the railroad takes him home<br>through fields of cattle<br>through fields of cane<br>from time to time<br>the waste memory-wastes<br>the waste memory-wastes<br>further, longer, higher, older