Hatboro Local

I can't blame the addicts who loiter around the convenience stores at night
Or the boisterous drunks spilling out of the bars at the two or three o'clock hour.
While the businesses folding may suggest the onset of neighborhood blight
It's the constant trains' ear-splitting refrains that have turned sweet suburbia sour.

When you're reading a book, or watching TV, or even worse, fast asleep
Those decibel demons chug down the tracks, bent on tympanic destruction.
Crossing gates fall, the train's caterwaul shatters silence and penetrates deep.
Why hasn't someone come up with a viable method of sound reduction?

I do not deny that train whistles are an important safety measure
But they're too loud, too long, too frequent, too strong, so I propose a solution:
Reroute the acoustics so that the folks on the train can share the displeasure.
The conductor will turn down the volume then, and clean up this noise pollution!