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The Route 14 bus was brutal

It covered a long swatch

along Roosevelt Boulevard

It was a slow crawl

along oversize urban boulevard

It was always overcrowded

and featured humanity

at it’s not so very best

Middle schoolers thinking

humor is pulling the stop chord

for every stop

which was pretty much every block

not realizing some people

worked all day

and just want to get the fuck home

People fighting for 2 seats

and no one thinking

of playing Duck duck goose

No one sacrificing the seat

for a pregnant woman

or elderly passenger

I always think of songs and clichés

like boulevard of broken dreams

and it always was apropos

as I stood clinging to a railing

the bus rollicking along;

people cursing each other

and avoiding eye contact

It was only a 30 minute ride

that without the stops

and the desperate traffic

could be run in 15

The chord is pulled

and 3 people get off

and 5 more people squeeze on

I only have about 8 stops left

to get to my destination

where heaven forbid

I need to get on another bus