The commute

[firefalling]

She is slate, grey graffiti’d metal, shuttered storefront. She is brick, mortar, vinyl, lit windows, neon. She is Hispanic, Hasidic, West African, White: bearing children, big chested, tiny- tight packaged jeaned things. She is strut, out and up, left- right, the rise and fall. Large thighed, skinny legged. Each stoplight, street corner,

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[anonymous]

Up the airy mountain / down the rushing glen / we dare not go a hunting / for fear of little men.

I traded my soul for a cigarette.