Old spindles paint the sky
All projections from the times before
Colored floors
Glances from strangers eyes
Little Mexican girls jumping around
The girl with long coal hair
Down the isle leans back
To pour water down her throat
Business men finger fucking blackberries
Tourist scurry
At the sight of the next big scene
Hollywood can be such a dream
Down here under the city heat glare
Tunnels that stretch so far
From decades before
Plotted and planned
The city of angels landed
Long before I ever thought
Of any of this
My train arrives like an airplane
Screaming down the tube
Squeeling brakes
Just the moment it takes
To step inside
These sliding glass doors
Linoleum chocolate
Cupcake floors
Strangers scattered like litter
There’s a man
Passed out
Head bouncing gently on the glass
Priority seating for seniors
And disabled
Immediately I’m stabled
Into upside down bar stools
Hanging from the ceilings
The loud-speaker mumbles
In seconds I’m humbled
At the sight of our public transportation
Takes me back to Europe in a flash
Dancing through Paris with cash
Was just like a dream
I remember 19
Holding hands next to the Seine
With you
The tunnels curve past western
I’m back in the mountains of Lucerne
Watching the enormous rocky skyline
Pushing into a long summer
What a bummer
I haven’t been across the pond
In almost a decade
I used to promise I’d make it
No matter what the trouble or glory
Nothing else to worry
About
With a back pack and my poems
Women, wine and the open road
A whole new world to discover
Again
On my own
Back in my zone
People are leaving
While my hips just shift with the brakes
Making great time I see
The journey has been so good to me
This morning just thinking
It’s not about the destination
But the things I see along the way
The friendships people make
The colors and textures
Of distant days
Taking it all in
This lifetime I wander
An artist
Recording everything I cross
Your face
The sun settling into place
Another dimension
Of time and space
So much stimulation
Such a vibration
Shifting to higher plane
Even on this subway train
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