Dignified Passenger by Albert Fried-Cassorla   The elderly gentleman sandwiched between popsicle youth and shopping bag grandmas reads his book like an owl nestled in scotch pines watches mice.

Can he be disturbed?

Nothing in his face,

his salt and pepper moustache unwavering against brown skin,

 

nothing in his pinstriped vested suit and panama hat,

 

nothing in his concentration amidst transit clangor and disco fever,

 

nothing but his getting off before his usual stop

tells the story.

 

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