I saw a man crushed in the subway
Four years back
Some college kid from Queens
Traded shoves on the platform
With some desperate debased drunk
Who dragged them to the tracks
As the train came
His scramble too slow by a second
Surprise on his face
When they wrenched his pulp
From between the car and the platform
I was gone by the time he died
Gasping in the ambulance
There must’ve been hundreds
Who saw him thеre stricken
Their voicеs burst forth fluid
And we all drowned in the flood
The sight of him sodden in unwilling eyes
His life seeping down into concrete
Into the records that name and contain us
When our lovely shells are gone
The numbers go up and up
But the sum never makes sense
Four years back
Some college kid from Queens
Traded shoves on the platform
With some desperate debased drunk
Who dragged them to the tracks
As the train came
His scramble too slow by a second
Surprise on his face
When they wrenched his pulp
From between the car and the platform
I was gone by the time he died
Gasping in the ambulance
There must’ve been hundreds
Who saw him thеre stricken
Their voicеs burst forth fluid
And we all drowned in the flood
The sight of him sodden in unwilling eyes
His life seeping down into concrete
Into the records that name and contain us
When our lovely shells are gone
The numbers go up and up
But the sum never makes sense
( Pyrrhon )
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