Favorite Fridays

This weeks poem comes from my good friend, Ian Rictor. While to me, his talents have always fallen in the musical realm, it seems he is also has a serious skill for writing. This poem has a really unique and interesting structure, I hope you all enjoy it!

BY: IAN RICTOR

Subway Poems

i.

see the subway

stretch of shrieky sheen

stretching wretch of sheeky slink

slinking freakish speed

prestine-ish cleaning gleam

gleaning people passeng-ing

leaning clinging relieving

release resume repeat

see the subway

wringing, flinging from its spleen

freeing people passeng-ing

ii.

When I took the 3:06 from Jersey

and I always took the 3:06 from Jersey

I ate my lunch in my seat

and as I ate my lunch

I could never really get over

how expensive it all was

iii.

Groceries

Grōs(ə)rēz (singular, grocery)

1. (n.) Objects strewn across the floor in the rear of the subway train.

ex. There were groceries on the floor on the subway.

2. (v.) To become angry at one’s human condition so much to the point of

strewing groceries (n. form) across the floor in the rear of the 3:06 to New York.

ex. Maria boarded the 3:06 crying and groceriesed everywhere.

3. (adj.) Inexpressibly numb and hopeless, having feelings of abandoned

smallness and of being trapped in a cluttered box.

ex. Sometimes, when the dampness of the terminal was just right, New York made Maria feel groceries.