Subway Restraint

Let's workshop this poem about a clash between a black man late to the most important job interview of his life and protesters who will not let him or any other person off the subway train.

Jul 02, 2023

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For an updated version, see: https://maistvanjr.substack.com/p/subway-restraint-round-2

This poem is unpublished

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“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)

Subway Restraint

Let's workshop this poem about a clash between a black man late to the most important job interview of his life and protesters who will not let him or any other person off the subway train.

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