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MAY 25, 2011 3:50PM

On an N train

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Did you think I didn't have you clocked?
(Just before our eyes locked, back about 2 or 3 metro stops.)

You were all chocolate eyes and alba white smile.
The best reason to have to stay and ride the train awhile.

From your brow to your nose tingling down through my toes
I wondered how many shades are they
Before black and white are no longer grey.

By the time you were looking too
It was a good thing for the doors at 42nd Street.
Stepping out was the only thing to do.

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Yea. Then? Well.
Catch another train On the 'N 'Train Track.
If it's raining at departure - time unrobe socks.
Ya get a fragrant rain-odor. Bathe in rain drops.
Once inside drop your purse and hop in bed sack.
Grab a bag of 'cheetos' and wipe finger on sheets.
Then -
Ruminate about a great Train 'N' nighttime. okay.
Leave sopping wet clothes on the front porch `gin.
In the morning the sunshine will cause them to smell.
Ahh the N train! Formerly known as the Sea Beach line a long long time ago. I would get on in Brooklyn at New Utrecht Avenue and 52nd St,

How many hours I spent checking out hot babes on the train in my youth.

:-) / R
i'm conquered

note: the grey race, spooky
Just walk away, Renee ...
Hello, Art James. Yes to everything.

I would catch another tomorrow if I could, toritto.

That's right, rita. Sounds like you saw him, too. Lucky eyes we have...
ume ~ you and me, both ~

...the grey and black and white had to do with the contrast of his eyelashes...and the ring around his iris...with all the rest...

Sing it, scarlett!
I was thinking Janis Ian.
D.e.W. ~ I might still be on the train then...
Makes me smile, too.
I love the tension in the air in this poem. I felt a rush of knowing.
rated with love
(you shouldn't have stepped out)
the shame! or was it to avoid it?

I tried commenting on this poem yesterday but OS was having one of its fits
Your rhymes and rhythms perfectly capture those darting gazes we give to people who catch our eye on public transport. Lovely.
Brassawe ~ un placer que dura aunque es intocable...

RomanticPoetess ~ a rush of reflection, intense and quick

vanessa ~ no shame, no shoulds...any longer and it would have just gotten silly...tu sabes como son los ojos picarosos con algo mas...un extra plus no se que...

Alyssa ~ merci, mujer!
like this:
"I wondered how many shades are they
Before black and white are no longer grey."

infinite.
choose a shade, but never
get committed to it as a permanent thing.
black is back.
gray is
the way of the world.

green is kinda popular,
but ya cannot beat blue
Clocked, huh? I have been thinking about that. Never encountered that usage. A little isolated here. But I like it, and I am going to steal it. Use it.
NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Don't get off! Don't get off! Don't get off!

Please stay for the adveNture!
Brass ~ Así es. Úsalo y bien.

mhold ~ the adveNture was better between miradas. Tu sabes que los ojos no lastiman...
Oh, catch, this is wonderful! So sensual ... sensational ... tantalizing ...tingling with allure.
James, sorry to have missed you, camouflaged up there in blue.

Thanks, Little Kate ~ the tracks do that to me, too...don't know why...
I didnt even know you were following me, hon.
Sr. Noir ~ I try to keep it on the downlow but I always end up getting caught red-handed. Ah, well.
Oh i remember when I used to take the N train. Those were the days...early eighties. Nice poem too. Not nice Great..
Hola catch ~ captured in your own words so well...

"..., as a way to get loose from, but still dance around, those background metaphysical beliefs that push outward on to the page, as a song, prose, love letter, whatever. Maybe it's that new take on something ancient that lets the spectrum of emotions hum..." (catch-22)

here deterritorialized
in a look between
desconocidos
deleuzean
ojos gris
matiz

Saludos ~ Poetisa
The rhythm of your words makes me want your hard copy, C22.
Algis ~ it couldn't have been too too long ago...feels like I just saw you there...

I.I. ~ desconocidos derretidos. In eleven words in your comment, at least eleven worlds whorl, unprotected and perfectly wild.

J.P. ~ Next time you find yourself freestylin', there you'll get a hold of it.
Wow. A tingly little tryst.
Prior to debut, N-Train trained with their agency for three years. In hopes to break the idol group image of recording dance-type music, MediaLine Entertainment directed their attention in recording R&B and soul-oriented music instead.-Marla Ahlgrimm