The Highway Robbers

By highway robbers,

I don't mean metaphorically speaking,

or highways,

but the classic bandits

like Jesse James

who scoured the railways

and looted trains

of their precious cargo,

whose fetes of daring

made infamy

famous,

romanticized

in pop culture

the way we've kind of desperatyely sought

in fiction

these last couple decades

since no one 

is interested

in the real world

anymore

(leaving the outlaw's descendants

into the social media

of the anonymous horde).

Make of that what you will.