A contemporary poem about scale error at the bus stop, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The bus is the size of a matchbox. The matchbox is the size of a bus. No one mentions it; we queue in good faith. A woman checks her phone and steps aboard. I follow her. The city has made room for the wrong proportions and still gets us home.
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