Today’s word – ‘Tube’
Down in the realm of the dead, a withered
place of no return, a tunnel stretches into infinity. This feat of urban engineering,
a gateway into the world beyond, is air-conditioned by the chill fear of
unknowing and swept daily by the trailing rags of the dispossessed.
Standing on the platform’s hard
edge, some ancient fear, buried deep, submerged beneath a surface of acceptable
behaviour, screams out. Its echo, trapped in the tiled walls, cries “Do not
ride this tube.”
Pulsating breezes, followed by vibrations
which travel up my spine, turn me about as some invisible hand in the small of
my back pushes me towards the escalator and I rise from the deep and step, blinking,
into the world of cars, buses and scurrying workers. I breathe deep, inhaling
the full life of fumes and dusty streets, and am glad.
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