14th Street – Union Square Station

Station after station
              of unmanned ticket booths
                            MetroCard swipes unlock another world.

The performers, dancers, musicians,
             the bootleg dvd peddlers,
                           the evangelical pamphleteers who are dedicated
                                       to convert all the New York heathens as they rush

             home from their soul-suffocating jobs.

Lean against the door
              balance
read Howl for the third time this week.

---

Andrea Janov is a punk rock kid who believes in the beauty of the ordinary, the power of the vernacular, the history of the abandoned. She strives to reveal the power in what we see, say, do, ignore, and forget every day. She holds Creative Writing degrees from SUNY Purchase and Wilkes University.