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diary of a sleeper train by. willow kang

For Grace Chen



The Moon is a cratered smile on a pocket watch,

cackling at the folly of the subway inhabitants

tramps with their music boxes strewn on cobblestone

Daylight lives in a depressing fantasy

but night is glorious, with

skyscrapers as the vampires’ draught

to turn sensibilities into impromptu night parties

Here comes two sweethearts with their suitcases,

bound for a more glitzy opioid coastline

Listen to the papier-mâché heart

of the sleeper train, how it beats as a tango

to the lovers’ looming war

in this chamber of dust-worn dreams,

& always, always, spurious optimists




 



Willow Kang (she/her) is a writer from Singapore. After school, you can find her lounging about lazily, reading or listening to music.


Painting by. Robert Rauschenberg (1979)

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