In Transit

The Sun Cracks And Drowns Down The Stairs
Sneaking Between Buildings As High As It
Waking The Homeless To The Change Of Fares
Though The Subway Lights Are Always Lit

Unheard Cries Of Fought Rats Over Breakfast Scraps
But There's Always Their Piss And Our Spit
To Fill The Real Routes Of Defaced Maps
With The Subway Lights That Are Always Lit

It's At Dawn That The Booth Gets Personalized
Where A Middle-aged, Middle-weight Will Sit
Broken With Desensitized Sleep Caked Eyes
And The Subway Lights Are Always Lit

But Off Platform, In A Carriage
Is A Man They Can't Re-admit  

The End Of His Beat And Sure It's Typical
To Find One With Twenty Before He'll Quit
Putting Him Off His End Of Day Bagel
But The Subway Lights Are Always Lit

The Officer Leaves Him As If Unseen
Sitting In His Own Junk Induced Shit
Till The MTA Does It's Sunday Morning Clean
Under The Subway Lights That Are Always Lit

Till Then Mothers Point With Their Daughters
Warning Of That Man's First Teenage Hit
There's Less Than Reflections In His Distilling Waters
For The Subway Lights Are Always Lit

It's Not What They See
It's What We'll Admit

CK