General Poetry posted March 2, 2017 | Chapters: | ...11 12 -13- 14... |
Free verse
A chapter in the book Word Games
R Train
by estory
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This is a poem about the subways of New York City. It is in many ways, I think, a metaphore for the engineered, isolated lives that we live sometimes today. In this underground, artificial world, endlessly repeating, meaningless images flash past in brief glimpses, where strangers sit with their bags and coats and never speak to each other. It is truly a rat race in a man made maze of tunnels and rails, and yet there are still those brief glimpses of faces in it, those transitory moments of light and the promise of escape [the exits} that give us the hope we need to live on. The R Train is a subway line, and I used it because of the repeating 'r' sounds, the grinding feel of the language, like the subway cars grinding on along the rails. estory
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