the Subway (standard:poetry, 288 words)
Author: Victor D. Lopez	Added: Jun 21 2013	Views/Reads: 2842/1916	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Free verse about the Fulton Street Subway Station in Brooklyn New York in the late 1970s. The poem, while descriptive of a real place, is intended as a metaphor for the darker side of life in any large city where human suffering is tamped down beneath the

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Bake a kike, 

Whitey sucks, 

Kill the niggers, 

I don't want to see, 

I don't want to see, 

I don't want to see, 

The train finally passes, 

Its lights receding into the dank, 

Dark tunnel beyond the platform, 

The screeches and screams slowly die out, 

Their echoes sucking behind them, 

The smell, 

Of my, 

Warm 

Vomit. 

From Of Pain and Ecstasy: Collected Poems (C) 1978-2011 Victor D. Lopez


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