The Chinatown Bus
Bishop Allen

I caught the bus in ChinatownnAnd slept the whole way up by 95nThe driver, cut and weaved so crazy, just his luck kept him alive and I guess I believed his rhythm on that morning after New Year's EvennAnd I remember ShanghainHow I wasn't sure just what was safe to eatnThe chickens pecked and wandered at the barefoot ankles of the children hawking figurines of workers smilingnWhat's the Chinese word for cheese?nnWatched a sidewalk butchernHis instinctive understanding made the carcass snap and clarify beneath his nimble hands that held the knife so long, so many times, the handles' changed to ships just like his fingers and his palmsnnAnd I, I am a passenger tonightnI watch the world, from insidennIt's 2AM in TokyonAnd still too soon to call back to the people who will soon begin the day I polished off and I will walk a mile amidst the neon lights that advertise nI don't know just what they sellnnI tell the taxi drivernTo the park, a higher tonenAnd his gloves are pristine white just like the girls I used to know would wear to dance their first cotillionnEvery single one of them named JennifernnI clutched at the same ChristophernI picked up at some country abbey long ago when I believed he'd keep me safe and make me happy but it seems the luck he brings is not the common currency of penny in JapannnAnd I, I am a passenger tonightnI watch the world, from inside

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