Canto I

You, sitting behind me again.
Do you always have to take this bus?
What is the story with that cough, anyway?
Is it maybe the longest running cold
In the history of colds?
Or do you think it could be the cigarettes?

You do plan to get off pretty soon,
Don't you?

R McNaughton Phillips. I ride the bus and I write poetry, but rarely at the same time.