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the crowded train

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half attended not engaged
an image of a bent page on a crowded train

then i stared nearby to this little girl
with a lazy eye as though incisioned
through her lids these deflated plump
pupils stared unvisually

my sympathetic smile collided
while her grandmother-so it seemed-
held her tightly with her pallid cracked finger tips
and she spoke tugging on the child's hand

she peered down embarrased and reached
for a crumpled napkin from her tattered overcoat
and the child welched as her head ascended
beyond her unfaulty gaze
the girl relaxed her nostrils rouged with blood
as she blotted the napkin to her nose
as if it was desperate to fall off
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AX BAXB XXXX XXCXCXX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 631
Words 114
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 4, 4, 7
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i once read a poem by neruda, and it touched me to a point that propoelled my interest. and then i read althuzer by vicente huidobro whereby a man parachuted from the sky and the world unfolded into his poetic epic and it took me to a different place different from my ignorant geography of poetry. but then jorge luis borges blew my mind and made poetry not only about truth but utter sublime fiction amidst an exploded horizon- boundless literature off a free falling cliff and the only thing to do was grow wings in midair and take the ride. more…

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