Keep your eyes down son<\/p>\n
To get to the end of the line<\/p>\n
Limit your eye contact<\/p>\n
and you\u2019ll be fine.<\/p>\n
Remember mother\u2019s stories<\/p>\n
One ticket for me<\/p>\n
My first trip to the city of apathy<\/p>\n
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Son, see the old man vomiting<\/p>\n
his nonsensical-sensical views.<\/p>\n
Ramblings about the deaths on the news.<\/p>\n
In between a prejudice or two<\/p>\n
I hear him say<\/p>\n
\u201cDivide then confuse.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A corduroy suit and unshaved face make him<\/p>\n
not quite a professor not yet a madman.<\/p>\n
Son, know he hates the world for its imagined sin,<\/p>\n
watch him turn his head and grin.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s like a war zone out there, look\u2014”<\/p>\n
AWAY from me if you know what\u2019s good.<\/p>\n
Son, keep eye contact with the blurring hood.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s like a heroin addict with money.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Son, stand your ground if fists start to fly\u2014<\/p>\n
AWAY from me, please,<\/p>\n
tell me we\u2019re at my stop, please, I need to go.<\/p>\n
Sixty minutes spent listening brings no ease<\/p>\n
\u201cRats: that\u2019s what\u2019s out there, you, know?\u201d<\/p>\n
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Manuel Rez Keep your eyes down son To get to the end of the line Limit your eye contact and you\u2019ll be fine. Remember mother\u2019s stories One ticket for me My first trip to the city of apathy Son, see the old man vomiting his nonsensical-sensical views. Ramblings about the deaths on the news. … <\/p>\n