Almost HappyAuthor(s): Jack GilbertSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Winter, 1994), p. 83Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20153492 .

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Almost Happy

The goldfish is dead this morning on the bottom

of her world. The autumn sky is white,

the trees are coming apart in the cold rain.

Loneliness gets closer and closer.

He drinks hot tea and sings off key:

This train ain't a going-home train, this train.

This is not a going-home train, this train.

This train ain't a going-home train 'cause

my home's on a gone-away train. That train.

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