After Work

Ready to go
 The sky up
 It's raining
 Reading a book
 On the downtown train
 Easy enough
 When the words are all plain
 Off in the distance
 ? playing soprano
 While a woman in white shoes
 Off with the mouth
 About heaven and hell
 No one gives her the time
 Crossing the bridge
 On the Harlem line
 People in shantees
 Feel the train go by
 The billboards overhead
 Advertising high-rises
 Build a better tomorrow today
 The man next to me
 And the woman one over
 Are looking at a book
 And those who aren't
 Are staring at them
 Cause the windows are dirty
 And they're standing in the doorway
 With their feet on facing chairs
 And sleeping heads on shoulders
 A girl is waiting
 At the Fordham Station
 Turns a page
 As the sun parts the sky
 The ground begins to dry
 On the playground
 I remember
 The taste of metal
 And bars in my hands
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