Riding Tomorrow’s Train

The book “Riding Tomorrow’s Train” is written by “Javad Mojabi.” Here is one of the poems from this book: “A random reader finds nothing in these strange books / Every time I come here to sit and drink / Young and old, men and women, back to the shelves of novels, travelogues, and maps / They sit gossiping for hours / Lager and Guinness fill their stomachs / I’ve never seen any of those who take refuge here even out of curiosity open any of these books for a moment / Who has exiled the printed beings to the pub, whose written heroes cannot sip even a drop / Today, I picked up a book, and from its pages spilled everywhere / Saturated letters and faded maps / A bit of madness and a touch of naivety / The waiter apparently knew something as he came with a damp cloth / Wiping nervously to clean the imprints / A part of the café’s space and its customers / Faded away so the revived imprints on the wooden table became more vivid.”