What is a Subway Poem?
From time to time, I write subway poems. This poem being an example. Do you want to know what a subway poem consists of? Let’s suppose you do. Here, then, is what a subway poem consists of. A subway poem is a poem composed during a journey in the subway. There are as many lines in a subway poem as there are stations in your journey, minus one. The first line is composed mentally between the first two stations of your journey (counting the station you got on at). It is then written down when the train stops at the second station. The second line is composed mentally between the second and the third stations of your journey. It is then written down when the train stops at the third station. And so on. You must not write anything down when the train is moving. You must not compose when the train has stopped. The poem’s last line is written down on the platform of the last station. If your journey necessitates one or more changes of line, the poem will then have two or more stanzas. An uns
