This is a work in progress, inspired by a recent real-life accident . Hopefully there's enough in this poem that you don't need  all the background, but I did provide it anyway.   Well, here's the original draft of this poem, for simplicity:   The train stopped for you  As none of us'd suspected  When the train jerked-stopped  And powered down to quarter-light  And the conductor informed us  Of a "situation", and not to panic.  "Was it terrorists?! Had someone bombed  The metrorail system? or taken hostages??"   No, no; most of the time,  Life's too ordinary for that;  No, no; it was just a man  Too sad to live, standing  On a metro platform,  Looking down.   afternotes: I was actually on the 8 car train to Glenmont that hit the man in the October 29th incident as mentioned at the beginning of this  and timelined here . Because life is just weird like that, I proceeded to do the first of our two Halloween weekend Rocky Horror performances the sam...
 
 
i was about to say GGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but after watching it and listening to the lyrics it was really touching and not that kind of touching you pedo hahahaha
ReplyDeletebut its really good and the song has a great sound to it and this is totally what a pirate would say if he was in love on a ship because there are no girls allowed hehehe
i love it