I love it (and I'm pretty sure I know who wrote it), and to me it's a creative spin on a snapshot of early morning commuters, dreary and depressed in a cold rain at a gray station in a gray town, seen through the lens of mentally and visually bleary eyes, and turned into something else. And it reminded me of the Unreal City section of The Wasteland, and I cannot not like anything that reminds me of that faceless crowd. It's a painting as much as a poem, and you wouldn't look at a painting and complain it's obscure or puzzling (at least I hope not) - you'd go with it. I think poetry deserves the same - certainly for six lines. This might not work nearly as well if it was a much longer poem, but for a six-liner - oh hell, climb on and take a ride on the railroad. (Or, whatever you do, don't read In a Station of the Metro.)
Last edited by Michael Cantor; 03-01-2010 at 11:06 AM.
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