Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Train Memoirs



Monday to Saturday                                    

                        This daily movement from one station to another
                         From home in one city

                         To work in another

                         From woman to worker and back--
                         Countless faces to wear and discard
                        
Among crowds who speak and look different
                         Oh so different
                         Their clothes, their smells--
                         Their gestures and plans---
                        
                         To adapt and change was possible
                         But not easy
                      
After the long aloof silence
                         And pain of exclusion
                         I discovered myself in the otherness of me
                         I joined the throng as M.S.T.
                         Monthly season ticket holder
                         That was me.

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