Everyday strange
On the Blue line.
A man vomiting on the floor,
the train hadn’t left yet.
A man clipping his fingernails.
A man loudly berating his girlfriend
Because the eggs he packed
in his own bag broke.
A man holding an 80’s style boom box
blaring music on an otherwise quiet train car.
A Black woman yelling at a Mexican man
that he should not be wearing his sunglasses at night
and, that he should not be in America if he can’t speak English.
A man complaining that there are too many immigrants on the train,
he had a large wrench in his hand.
A man singing “La Bamba” for money.
Various people telling their sad stories,
selling candy and trinkets, begging for money.
The train conductor announcing that someone
smelled like cigarette smoke.
Various kinds of body odor and bad breath.
An older Black man yelling at younger Black boys
that they walk like monkeys with their pants hanging low.
An obnoxious teenager staring at me
and asking me to go to the prom with him.
Everyday strange getting stranger everyday.
