A Morning Story

Leigh Fisher
Sep 2, 2018 · 1 min read
The dirty wall of a subway station. Photo by Auseklis on iStock.

He tosses the knife in the trash at the train station
so casually
just like a dozen others
toss out their coffee cups or used tissues

he disposes of this object in a place so decrepit
the trains can barely move for more than a day
before the tracks fail
and things start to break

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Leigh Fisher

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Writer and poet from Neptune. No, not the farthest planet from the sun, but Neptune, New Jersey. I work in communications and instructional design in NYC.

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