HAPPY BIRTHDAY

On my 52nd,
     nightmare from
Bronx boyhood returns:
         
   I am on the wrong train,
         I want local, not express,
         I want IND, not IRT,

rocketing past stations,
               people on platform
                          waving,
      trains flashing by like frames
                      of a tired dream,
as I hurtle down,
         down to...
                              South Ferry.

September 30, 1998


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