<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="c-feature-hd" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 9px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="c-hdgSans_2 c-mix-hdgSans_inline c-hdgSans" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; line-height: 1.231; font-weight: normal;"><font size="4" class="">Poem for Passengers</font></h1></div><div class="c-feature-hd" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 9px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="c-hdgSans_2 c-mix-hdgSans_inline c-hdgSans" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; line-height: 1.231; font-weight: normal;"><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></h1></div><div class="c-feature-bd" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3;"><div class=" isActive o-poem" data-view="PoemView" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">Like all strangers who temporarily<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">find themselves moving in the same direction<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">we look out the window<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">without really seeing or down at our phones<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">trying to catch the dying signal<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">then the famous lonesome whistle<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">so many singers have sung about<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">blows and our bodies shudder<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">soon we pick up speed<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">and pass the abandoned factories<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">there has lately been so much conversation about<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">through broken windows they stare <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">asking us to decide<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">but we fall asleep next to each other<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">riding into the tunnel<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">sharing without knowing the same dream<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">in it we are carrying something<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">an empty casket somehow so heavy<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">only together can we carry it<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">over a bridge in the snow<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">emerging suddenly into the light<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">we wake and open our laptops<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">or a book about murder<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">or a glossy magazine<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">though we are mostly awake<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">part of us still goes on solving <br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">problems so great they cannot be named<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">even once we have reached our destination<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">and disembark into whatever weather<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">for a long time there is a compartment<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">within us filled with analog silence<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class="">inside us the dream goes on and on</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Matthew Zapruder</div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div></div></div></body></html>