People visit Constitution all the time
in that the train to Atlanta takes them
through the sign located
where the ghost town used to be.
There’s nothing left now,
not since the War of Northern Aggression.
History’s taken it away.

There are prisons near the town’s resting place
but even those prisons are zombies now
no inmates walking their halls
or haunting the cells.

In the region
there are no sights to see
or sites to link to
or citations to cite about
this former home
of the formerly living.
It’s ghosts may whisper
of some prior world
but we ignore it
since the sounds of American trains
overwhelm their scratched voices.

Only our imaginations can inform us
of the world of Constitution, Georgia
now one hundred and fifty years gone.
Imagination
or more diligent research.