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The Bakers Dozen

By Annmarie O'Connor


..13 episodes of a life in progress: lessons learned, feelings shared, sorrow endured and hope sustained. Discover the self: be it mine or yours in the universal language of poetry.

The first 'episode' is reproduced below

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Subway Elegy 

Submarine sandwich 
waiting for the subway 
listening to those homesick blues. 
 
Missing the old country,
living in the big city 
waiting for a small miracle to get me where I want to go.

Peeling paint behind me ,
behind that old poster ,
showing the latest movie which I think I saw a last year.

Wondering why I'm here, 
why he's never there, 
and why I can never catch the L on a Friday morning.

Train pulling in, 
pulling people pushing out, 
with me on a platform standing still. 

A half-eaten sandwich,
a head full of Dylan 
and a pocket full of tokens I'll never use.

© 2001 Annmarie O'Connor



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