OC Transpoem
Jeff Blackman

This bus & its wooden roller coaster noises
This bus & its downhill slalom steering
     veering into traffic, shaking
     drastic lane change drop-offs
     pick ups, last stops -- get off
     poor folk, students
     cig stained strollers
     all us OC rollers
     scary black kids
     timid civil servants
     Ottawa South refugees
     U of O freshman preteens
     all of us bus pass people
     living life along the transitway
     bus routes, chutes and laddering
     about town hoping no one
     sits down next to us.







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