You enter one of the many entrances on or
around forty second street

Steep stairs taken at two at a time

Drop your token into the turnstile

Push your way through entering into
a maze of confused passengers

Uptown, Downtown, Brooklyn, Queens,
Times Square shuttle

All ways to the famed iron horses

You now are in the transient capitol of
New York's subway system

Pick a number of a train line
for a ride

How about number six?

Making all stops along Lexington avenue
in the borough of Manhattan

Going north into the maligned borough
of the BRONX

Through the rough and tough
south Bronx

Poor people living in the hood

Further north through a tunnel
into fresh air

Continuing on an elevated track
over Westchester avenue

The train has begun to empty

Still further north it goes past
Parkchester

Reaching Westchester Square where
General George Washington traveled
in 1776

Three more stations until the final stop
Pelham Bay Park

Last stop everybody off

The motorman leaves his compartment
and walks to the rear of the train

He opens the rear compartment and
begins the reverse travel process

Going south now back to Manhattan

Reversing every 75 minutes in the
endless subway ride for weary
passengers

Yet it is an experience as a passenger
never to be forgotten

Tony Mike Nerone
12-22-09