L-Train

L-Train 7:50 PM, again…

Two friends unexpectedly meet on a train at 7:50PM. The artist is working on an easel with markers over a subway map.
Mr. cool guy sits with his 2-day-old beard and dramatically huge headphones, which only skinny guys with long hair can get away with.
The dad stands as the kid kneels on the almost empty row of seats looking at the moving tunnel walls through a darkened window as we leave 1st Avenue.
A guy reads a purple covered book, as he stands near a door with a bicycle wheel between his lower extremities.
A girl, who could be Ugly Betty’s cousin stands holding a brand new wood skateboard in her left arm while her other hand holds onto a BLICK art store bag.
To the right, a soon-to-be middle age woman in a business suit plays solitaire on her blackberry.
Most of the “self-proclaimed cool” yuppies get off at Bedford, of course.
A short buff Mexican guy in jump suit gear is reading HF, a Spanish men’s health and exercise magazine.
A strange long brown bearded character sleeps on the next bench, in front of a red-head, short-skirt - black stockings woman.
Another man looks at the sadness of a continuous education course catalog featuring some Polish-Jewish looking professor inviting you attend this wonderful community college….
Graham finally comes….One more trip home has concluded….I got to get off…….The train goes on…These lives go on….We all go on…

ACD
4.17.09