<koertge's "she"> 2003-05-01.12:15 a.m. She Ronald Koertge likes big machines. Trains so long the caboose is just a memory, yellow Caterpillar tractors that can run over anything. And she especially likes those cranes with a big steel ball that can knock down neighborhoods. She says if she were an engineer, she would stop anywhere to let me on, crush anyone with her tractor who was even rude, demolish a landmark so I could see better. You wouldn't know it to look at her, to see her eat Thai food or go to the movies. But some nights the sound of powerful engines wakes me. Outside, the streets are empty, but in the moonlight the building next door is pale with apprehension. back /& forth /& frosting names are often sad