bus ride

drone, smells, chatter. blurs
drone, smells. chatter. drone,
revery, comfort, pain, fear,
drone. blurs, noise, pain.
fatigue, noise, noise. chatter,
noise, fatigue. smells, smells,
smile. glance, fatigue, noise.
glance, glance, fear. pain,
smells, drone. drone, drone.
stop sudden noise. drone,
weary, glance. smells.
stop, up, smells, glance,
out. noise. fatigue.


Hans Ostrom, 2012

Frustration Station

At Frustration Station, crates

of bad karma get off-loaded,

vats of bile sit in storage, and

tickets turn to paste.  Conductors

have called a halt. Engineers

weep, and tunnels belch hot wind.

Departures and arrivals melt

into one immobile blob.  Turnstiles

turn into empty gun-barrels aimed

at one another. Vermin gnaw

wires of  ambition.  Only the fiddler

playing for oily coins is happy.

These faces, these faces, these

faces twist toward scream.  

Hans Ostrom, 2012