locomotion

stale subway air.
heat and grease dance
with man's odor and stress.
impatience dominates.
stress emanates.

Stockbrokers wait with whores.
the homeless are warm.
dialects and languages create
an underground choir of the misplaced.

a man plays the blues.
people pay no attention.
he slides and wails stories
about lost love and no luck.
a soundtrack for this scene.

a steel grate hangs above.
the hot stank escapes there.
freed by the streets.
a faint pulse is overhead.

a train stops.
unloading a generic population.
only to receive the next.
screaming as it disappears
into the darkness.

more trains arrive.
more trains depart.
life is locomotion.