to night train

night train you are better than day train you

you are awesome like night train

the movie with danny glover 

steve zahn and leelee sobieski

people spit in you you are express

usually i'm not sure you are sometimes

only local or quasi express or local
your windows are mirrors

it's sad and quiet in you

you show me the river, the ice chunked

freezing river but 

mostly you are a mirror

to my sadness and my self-pity

i try and write and read in you

but it's easier to play a game

listen to music or tweet and text
there's an empty subway cup in you

i ride backwards in you

your ticket collector is vacant

unshaven and polite in an angry way

the drunk people are gone for a few days

the weekend is over you are only express

so steady no worries of sunshine

inside of you you are taking me 

to the city to my home away from 

home in the hell of the city

the starry landscape shifts

in your windows a half moon

watches you you night train

you are express or local

you are dirty and in the city's 

bowels where time doesn't matter

and it feels like home