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by Thomas Kurkoski

Created on: February 17, 2009

leather seems to creak more
in this dampness
as my stomach sours
with anxiety
or perhaps remorse
unrelenting in its disquietude
I no longer enjoy
the things I used to
nor do I have any want
to change this station
its far easier
to just watch the trains
in the subway
and embrace the headache
that they offer

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by Lisa Kates

Screeching wheels

Race along

Cold steel tracks

Anxious people

Lean against walls

Listening to beats

Craning necks
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by Rachelle de Bretagne

Sounds and signals, speed and noise,
Adverts on a subway wall,
People's faces gray and ashen,
Do they see my face at all?
All
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by Tom Glover

Space full of fuss

A train full of people

A tube full of trains

Welcome aboard as commuters take aim

Barge past the hump
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by Angela Kanel

Rolling down a stream of concrete
the hypnotism of broken lines pointing into forever
it seems an eternal road
all the vehicles
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by Arthur Croker

URBAN UNDERGROUND
Are you looking up at me
Just let your minds eye run free
Every time you join me down here
is the air above

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