Penn Station
She misused her subway map, crinkling
the crisp folds to form unrecognizable gutters and
side alleys. Flashlight in hand, she
scoured these new-found boroughs
for aliens and gullible scapegoats.
Train cars pulsed above,
below, and all around,
stalkers on the 7:57 Express.
Parroting overheard threads
of Communist propaganda, she
searched for myths in between
Murray Hill and Broadway,
eleven and a half stops before
Penn Station, in the rain.
She decided that without
crisp, clean, scientific fact,
her long-dead manuscript could only
be revived by the pilfered
fountain pen that had
obliterated her twelfth stop.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 96 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 3, 6, 6 |
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