Trying to cover the three of us with one umbrella.
My naked hand out for a cab full-body soaked as that car roared by
and I was wet and cold and pissed.
Then giving up counting our change to catch the crosstown bus
climbing onboard paying our fare and me
surprised to find it half-empty in the rain.
freedom and space on public transportation, a moment to catch one’s breath and exchange uncommitted glances with strangers. relief. very enjoyable.
Why this same strict and most observant watch
So nightly toils the subject of the land;
And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,
And foreign mart for implements of war;
Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task
Does not divide the SUNDAY from the week;
— William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.
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