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Friday, January 29, 2016

Commuter's Lament or A Close Shave

By Norman B. Colp


 Overslept.

 So tired.

 If late,

Get fired.

 Why bother?

 Why the pain?

 Just go home.

 Do it again.


This poem has been hanging in the rafters as an art installation in Port Authority, NYC since 1991.   

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