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The R Train
The air is hot, dry and Lysol thick,But nobody takes off their coat.train cars wobble, screech and lurch,their floors pockmarked.Dreams of a new landhardened into wads of blackened gum.A man sleeps,his head bobbing against a metal polewhile a woman draws staccato lines into her expressionless brow.Faces down,Phones whispering, “This is for all you NYC badasses!”