subway

three men behind me on the subway yesterday suddenly burst into a gospel version of
"on the boardwalk" in spot on harmony--their voices were so powerful, so soulful....no one knew how to show their emotion on the train, we stood poker faced and I tried to keep the tears from streaming....the sound and the feeling were so powerful in such tight quarters in a place where everyone keeps the facade of distance precisely because we are all so densely packed together......then out into the swirling madness of the city