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lil  ·  3503 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A short poem about a journey

Everything and nothing. It depends on one's interest or alertness to perceptions and surroundings. One specific thing I learn every time I ride a bus or streetcar is the minutia of people's lives, their emergencies, their stresses, a lot of things I'd rather not learn; but they talk loudly into their cell phones about personal things. They swear and threaten people on their cell phones. Subways are potentially quieter.

  So I learned that sitting on a bus when it starts is
  Like being inside the stomach of 
  A growling beast
This is a nice image.

We have a bunch of new electric buses on rails. Not a lot of cities still have them the rails. Anybody else still have streetcars on rails?