Legally North of Babylon
  • Home
  • About
  • Photos
  • Places
  • Media
  • Contact
on the road with the rule of law

Baltimore: Subway

9/30/2013

0 Comments

 
Picture
Tear drop tattoos and practicing Jews
One has an ankle monitor above his left shoe
Community release trapped in a cell
The subway coming from some suburban dell

All quite a lot for a quarter to seven
Hell or high water, this AC is heaven

                                                                                         The rest of the train is lost in their phones
                                                                                         Emails and Instagram's sepia tones
                                                                                         Suits, jean shorts, and hospital passes
                                                                                         Every class and creed, all pensively passive
                                                                                         All in the same car with no where to go

                                                                                        This is Baltimore City, what The Wire foretold
                                                                                        Banal amongst the corruption and crime
                                                                                        A failure of empire, each stop nearer decline

                                                                                        The crowd ushers out, making room to breath
                                                                                        Next one is yours, preordained, time to leave
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Jason Tashea is from Anchorage, Alaska. Follow him on Twitter @jtashea.

    View my profile on LinkedIn
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.