On the Subway

Scrawny teens, school uniforms:
trade their gross-out jokes.
Schizophrenic lady storms
at Satan – blind man pokes.

Woman with a baby pram
and baby blocks the aisle.
Mean-ass thug about to ram –
stops: sees the baby smile.

Tourists from Alsace-Lorraine
look about in terror.
Old man with a fountain pen
crosses out an error.

Young dude in a bubble
of business suit and tie
doesn’t seem too troubled
that he will one day die.

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