Poetics: Passengers

Here is this week's publication from the Poetics series I'm hosting via my Patreon, Burnt Notions. I call this one:

Passengers

I appreciate that the identifying placard at the Amityville Long Island Railroad station reads “Amityville” and, one line down, “Psychiatric Institute” for the benefit of all arriving passengers.

In a real democratic society, the priority order would be all constituents and then politicians. Instead, here come these corrupt freeloaders again with their smiling vaccination photos on social media…

Maybe this subway preacher really does have power: He’s converted the distance between each stop into an eternity.