As a special treat for your Monday morning, Hannah Stephenson of The Storialist has blessed TrainWrite with her song “Skytrain,” which features the Vancouver, BC transit system on bells. Enjoy.
Slipped inside the Skytrain’s mouth.
Swallowed me and dragged me South.
Plastic seats show how to sit,
fold my form against their skin.
Like a boat leans out to sea,
so we depart gently.
Gently we go from here,
eased into the city’s veins.
Skytrain, I’ll let you steer,
if I can circulate.
There’s nowhere I need arrive.
Driverless is how I drive.
Splayed beneath the steady rain,
rows of buildings, halted trains.
Like curtains lifted by a breeze,
we are carried gently.
Trains and blood and homes and rain.
It’s the same; we circulate, we circulate.
Trains and blood and homes and rain.
It’s the same; we circulate, we circulate.
Sit or stand with headphones in.
Eyes and ears need distractions.
We don’t know which way to face.
We are borrowing the space.
If your hand should graze my knee,
take it back gently.
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