"Ride"

This is one from back in 2002 or so.

"Ride"

It's somewhat brisk this morning.
Taking the subway on a Sunday
morning is absorbing. Those on the
train are loyal, they have the train
in their guts, they are truly
faithful. Some drinking bitter mandatory-to-them
coffee; some newspaper buyers, each
with a different example of the
fragmentary individualist; lonely in
his/her/their quest to pass the time - to
"make the best of it".

And there is always the beggar - it's too
early for the musician or salesperson,
these times are only for the "diehards",
we that live for the subway, the train,
the smell, the total feeling of soul, of talking
to the child of then and of now.

I have arrived.