stepping onto the E train where it's so claustrophobic you might as well cut out your lungs and die
that would be a bit dramatic though not as much as the pain bottled up in the eyes which want to cry but can't looking through you not at you just don't take it personally
walking along 3rd avenue where cars colonize the street like it's a newly found kingdom labeling yourself a New Yorker is a title not yet earned since you still check Google Maps sometimes
why bother getting lunch two blocks down at some unheard of but kinda cool pizza place when there's a Chipotle right here and Nintendo World is a few blocks away and Midtown Comics is right around the corner there's magic to this
setting your search on Tinder to one mile away where your options are as endless as your "swipe lefts" wondering if the next one is the one it could be, couldn't it?
work ends and you reenter the flux of people moving so fast it's like they're running away maybe it's getting Happy Hour drinks or simply going home
there's less summer every day only a little bit of sunlight at the end not much but something to cherish
the ******* about it being hot will soon be the ******* about it being cold seeing yourself march through a labyrinth of strangers going here to there sometimes with life scaring you moving into territory without open arms