Track Work (R.I.P. Mchael)

R.I.P. on station poster
Silver marker
Mchael

Old ones changed out every few months
Stapled in place
Advert

On every platform in NY
A small message
Read me

What is it that crawls from the skin
Wanting to be
Let go

A temporary need to speak
Between short rides
On walls

Further down the line before Penn
A man pisses
Alley

From the train windows he is seen
Maybe that once
Or not

And in this way we pass through life
Leaving our mark
Drips, drabs
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8.20.10