by Lisa Kates

Created on: February 18, 2009   Last Updated: May 28, 2009

Screeching wheels

Race along

Cold steel tracks

Anxious people

Lean against walls

Listening to beats

Craning necks

Peering down dark tunnels

Waiting for the subway.

Tired drab green tiles

Cast florescent shadows

On weary faces

Of riders wanting to go

Home

School

Work

Throngs of commuters

Stand alone

Reading slim urban papers

Horoscopes

Sudoku

Gossip

And

Sports.

Cells ring

Texts ding

Squealing sounds

Trains

Echo

Drawing nearer

Commuters

Not to be left behind

Move like one

The subway stops

Doors whisper open

People push

The platform empties...

Silence.

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