newbeatnik:

Nobody smiles on commuter trains

or sings in the stations.

So natural, a purging of air

through the chest and out of the voice box

an organ playing the organ

rattling the rafters

the squeal of turning shoes;

nobody wants him here.



The policeman dragged him away

cracked his head off the floor

and I saw him crying

because nobody smiles on commuter trains

and nobody sings in the stations.