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- From: gaillard@panix.com (Ed Gaillard)
- Subject: walking in a winter underworld
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- Keywords: story
- Organization: Radio Free Hades
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:20:36 GMT
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- It was snowing. I was waiting at the 110th Street subway
- station, when the token-booth clerk announced that power was out
- from Times Square to 137th. He had no idea when service would
- resume, and offered bus transfers. Most people left the station.
- I decided to wait. The bus takes forever.
-
- Snow fell through the grating on the street above, drifted to the
- subway tracks, melted.
-
- A man came out of the subway tunnel, climbed up on the platform,
- and walked to the exit. He was singing "Walking in a Winter
- Wonderland".
-
- The train came. An old woman in the car was moaning loudly. Her
- voice was like civil war in a bat colony. She didn't seem to be
- in pain.
-
- The train had gone two stops before I realized she was singing
- "Gloria in Excelcis Deo".
-
- -ed g.
- Sometimes people ask me why I love New York.
- I never know what to tell them.
-