{"id":24531,"date":"2016-08-13T20:24:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24531"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:24:08","slug":"subway-to-el-on-the-2-train-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/subway-to-el-on-the-2-train-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Subway to El on the “2” Train: 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"

Subway to El on the \u201c2\u201d Train: 1976<\/p>\n

Frannie Z<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You\u2019re just riding, but well,<\/p>\n

you\u2019re twenty-something<\/p>\n

and looking, too\u2026<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He is tall, velvet dark tan,<\/p>\n

black eyes, ,<\/p>\n

killer smile\u2026<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And the hat.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The hat tops everything.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Unselfconsciously he stares,<\/p>\n

you stare back.<\/p>\n

He grins. You grin back<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He takes the hat, spins it<\/p>\n

(revealing a mop of dark, wavy hair).<\/p>\n

Catches it. Grins again.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Something inside you gyrates,<\/p>\n

like one of those new techno toys<\/p>\n

and you want to get right up<\/p>\n

on top of him<\/p>\n

and dance closer<\/p>\n

than two courting birds.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

West Farms Square.<\/p>\n

The train whirls around<\/p>\n

spinning buildings, streets, stores,<\/p>\n

and high flying dance kings<\/p>\n

in discos<\/p>\n

into view.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He gets off.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You stay on.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Pelham Parkway, meet 158th<\/sup> Street.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t stop now.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Subway to El on the \u201c2\u201d Train: 1976 Frannie Z   You\u2019re just riding, but well, you\u2019re twenty-something and looking, too\u2026   He is tall, velvet dark tan, black eyes, , killer smile\u2026   And the hat.   The hat tops everything.   Unselfconsciously he…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24570,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24531\/revisions\/24570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}