Radio Poetry

You can either see it as cheesy, or brilliant. I choose the latter.

On today's "All Things Considered" from NPR, they segued from talk of the Presidential candidates, to a brief history of the term "whistle stop," in campaigning, to a story about how localities may soon be able to tell trains not to blow their whistles through certain stretches of track to reduce nighttime noise, to a quick retrospective of how train sounds have impacted development of American music.

In my opinion, the moment of brilliance came at the end: "...if musicians have their way, that sound will be with us for a long time — if not on the rails, then certainly, on many tracks."