Sunday, January 4, 2015

the career

her hand
up, holding the strap.
the subway car tumbles
below the city
through a tunnel,
the flickering of lights,
the screech of wheels,
the dulled
eyes of tired
commuters looking
through her, neither
forward or back,
her hand up,
holding the strap.
ten years becomes
twenty oh
so fast.

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