Rush Hour: Yonge/Bloor Station (April 5, 2016)

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Like a silver serpent

It does arrive

At the subway platform

Screeching brakes

And hidden sparks.

Disgorging

Its passengers

Like a raided loot.

Taken

From other subway stations

Further down

Or up the line

From here.

Flooding the platforms

Likes a colony

Of disturbed ants

Moving in

All directions

At once.

As they scurry

To make their connection

With another subway

Going north south

East and west.

An electronic chime

Sounds off

Followed by

Warnings:

"Not to rush

To doors

Or hold them

Open".

With a swoosh

The Leviathan

Leaves the platform

Packed to the gills

With commuters.

Only thing missing

Are the Tokyo pushers

To cram every single cm

With more passagers

Into the rolling tin can.

Therisa © 2016

Author's note: The Yonge/Bloor subway station, is the busiest station of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) stations. So busy, during off-peak hours, I avoid it, as its large crowds, have triggered panic attacks, for me.

The above photo, is one of the new trains that Bombardier Transportation is suppose to supply, but is several months, behind, it delivery schedule.