Sunday, January 11, 2009

Love on a Real Train

it's a risky business-
love that is-
if you can find it here.

mostly we're tourists
standing on the platform
waiting for the train to come
(not knowing there's no Purple line
service on weekends.)

even veterans of this
battlefield (who think
they know it all)
are enraged when the fare changes.

so many personalities
jammed together in a car-
it's hard to tell
who's real, connected
and who's ephemeral.