Trying to not get killed?
At which ever every next juncture?
Don’t think that much. Look right
before you cross, even if white is all you see. Step back before the train arrives. The platform might move
Wide jeans feel too spacious sometimes for the pedestrians across the street and the room between your legs
waiting for the signal to cross, while you reward one another with a dozen seconds’ worth of attention
So don’t wear them on a day of brisk walking. Exhaustion is your fuel. Drink juice, so you have some backup
in a city of bodies turned to numbers
you must know the epicenter
and circumference
of shock
and shot